Moderators (“mods” for short) monitor and manage the day-to-day affairs and interactions of Wondercafe2. Effective moderation directly impacts the quality of a forum, its appeal, and its usefulness as a community.

Tasks and Duties:

• Moderate discussion and ensure Code of Conduct is followed by participants
• Monitor user profiles and other public areas of the community for compliance with Code of Conduct
• Deal with disruptive users (consistently refuse to follow rules, harass other users, etc.)
• Respond to user complaints and reports
• Clean up spam and spam accounts
• Answer user questions
• Mentor, and provide assistance and guidance to, sub-forum specific moderators
• Sit on, and report to, Council
• Review and update Code of Conduct as needed

Privileges:

Manage threads and posts

• Delete threads and posts
• Merge threads
• Move threads (e.g. if a thread is in the wrong forum)
• Lock threads (prevents further posting in the thread)
• Rename threads (ie. Change the subject of the original post)
• “Stickying” threads (make them appear permanently at the top of the forum)
• Adding, editing, removing polls in threads

Enforcement

• Issue warnings to users
• Issue suspensions or bans
• Lift suspensions or bans