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Tips to new mods: ENGAGE with your community often. It shows humanity. Don't distinguish your comments unless you are speaking officially as a mod doing mod stuff. That way the community sees "you" as well as "mod you" and they learn to distinguish between the two naturally. Finally, PROTECT your community. When you see users being harassed or whatever, crack down hard on that shit.
Doing all that has really helped /r/MilitaryStories grow. The mod team is fairly popular with our readers, and we don't have a lot of drama at all. (Excepting our one action in September in support of BLM that pissed off a lot of people.)
Good luck to all the new mods out there.
Comment by [deleted] at 09/04/2021 at 07:14 UTC
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I think it's also important to make clear that you're a mod in your flair, so that whilst you're not distinguishing your comment or post as a moderator, the community still knows you are part of the mod team, especially if you are trying to get across the message the you are all still humans.
Comment by roblacosse at 14/04/2021 at 07:20 UTC
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Appreciate your input!