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View submission: Announcing Mod Notes
I love this! We're implementing more policy & procedure in a sub I help mod and I was feeling like I was being too serious about it all lol Thank you
Comment by techiesgoboom at 09/03/2022 at 15:17 UTC
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Oh yeah, for me at least having policy and procedure around how to mod a sub is what allows us to have fun doing it. It doesn’t need to be complicated either, it’s just a matter of writing down how you currently mod instead of leaving it unwritten.
Just from the outside watching drama on mod teams elsewhere it almost always seems to stem from people on the mod team moderating differently. When you have those discussions about how to mod preemptively you can hash out the issues and agree to something before trouble starts.
Then if there’s ever any problems or disagreements you can just point to your mod guidelines as what the correct answer is that everyone agreed to. You can always discuss those and change them or add nuance when needed, but you still have those guidelines for the correct answer.
A big part of our guidelines is that we don’t remove things without a reason within the rules or guidelines. I don’t worry about a mod playing favorites or going rogue or anything. It would be super obvious if they did. Within the policy is a “what to do with things not covered” as well as how to go about voting and changing the policy.
Having a shared set of guidelines we all agree to mod to *written down* means we can worry about actually moderating the sub and don’t need to worry about anything else.