Re: [Inkscape-devel] rules and guidelines for new forum - first draft

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 11:07:14PM -0600, brynn wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>        As it turned out, only me and a couple of other people were
> interested in drafting the rules and guidelines for the new forum.  So we
> can get more eyes on it, and possibly more professional opinions about it,
> I'd like to ask the community to have a look at it.

Yay!  It's awesome seeing this task has come along so well.

>        I have no background in writing such documents, so it's purely a
> layperson's whack at it.  I feel quite confident about the contents, based
> on my years of experience in Inkscape forums.  But the format of the
> document, and possibly some of the language might need some technical
> advice.
> 
>        So any an all comments and suggestions about the format or language
> are very welcome.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/content/blob/master/articles/Forum%20Rules%20and%20Guidelines/ForumRulesText.md
> 
>        (I've left it locked to editing, so everyone sees the same doc, for
> this first review.  Then I'll unlock it afterwards.)

"Prerequisites for being a moderator"

  * Age requirements
  * Time availability

  It also mentions requiring previous experience as a forum moderator
  (on an external forum I suppose?)  I take it you expect there's going
  to be plenty enough people with past experience?

"Moderator Duties and Responsibilities"

#3:  On mailing lists, I've found the phrase "Let's all keep discussions
civil" to work well and have the desired effect, and would suggest
including that phrasing here too.

In addition to Inactive Moderators, can you add some guidance on what
steps to do if a moderator is not behaving acceptably?  I'm imagining
this might either be a unanimous vote of the other moderators, or
perhaps if that won't work, some kind of escalation to a higher
authority, or something.  I'm imagining this will be exceedingly rare,
but having a process spelled out might help it be even more rare.  ;-)

"Complaints"

I think some text may be worth adding here regarding, "What if I feel a
moderator is treating me unfairly?"  Escalating to the CoC is
appropriate for major issues, but for minor complaints about a moderator
it may be better if there is some guidance on how to address it within
the forum moderation team.

The Forum Etiquette section is great, and I wonder if it should be at
the top of the document, since that's probably what you want *everyone*
to read.  Unless your plan is to have this officially live here, but cut
and paste it into appropriate areas of the forum.

Thanks for working on this, it reads very easy and as a lot of common
sense.  It'll make a great foundation to build on.

Bryce

> Thank you very much,
> brynn
> 
> PS - I'm also posting about this in the forums.
> 
> 
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