Community Moderation Policy - Let’s Design it Together
Chelsea Robinson
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This Loomio Community group is one of the most important parts of Loomio and our work here online, and we love engaging with each and every one of you. Our crowdfunding campaign is going to explode next week and we're hoping our exposure will increase dramatically, all around the world.
With more people in the conversation, we think this group might grow in size and more people will join the community. As this community group grows, how do you want to enhance and protect the quality of your experience in this group?
Inclusive groups are inclusive because of principles which make it safe for everyone to participate effectively, and a strong culture of respect and open communication. What principles would we like to uphold about how we interact here no matter how big, how global, how diverse we get?
We believe in the best in people, which is why we’re making a tool so all voices can be heard. But we all know that sometimes you have to draw a line. Where should that line be drawn? What kind of behavior would necessitate moderators stepping in, or having to make someone leave the community? These are worst case scenarios, but understanding these boundaries is how we nurture the best case scenarios.
Let's start by talking about what we love about Loomio Community group, and develop some principles from there for protecting what we love as we grow and change. We are trying to develop the first iteration of a moderation policy this week (although it will always be evolving) so if you have thoughts about this, have your say!
Jon Lemmon Sun 9 Mar 2014 11:15AM
Yayy!!!
Danyl Strype Wed 2 Apr 2014 8:49AM
I really like the Rules of Civilized Discourse. The 'If you see a problem flag it' section got me to thinking, what if I could engage in an 'act of facilitation' (we've been discussion these elsewhere) by tagging comments in a non-threatening way. Eg an aggressive comment could be tagged with 'I felt attacked when I read this comment'. Or maybe a mood-minding traffic light where friendly comments could be tagged as green, off-topic or confusing ones as amber, and aggressive or threatening ones as red?
Process note: I'm aware that the Loomio team have a well-established habit of using GoogleDocs. I'd like to encourage them (and everyone) to make use of the awesome paperclip tool to attach longer documents as a .PDF, a .TXT or in an OpenDocument format. This leads to a couple of ...
Other feature requests:
1) it would be great to be able to attach documents to decision proposals and outcomes, and in the Context Box
2) it would be great to be able to browse all attached files from a library or archive page, maybe sortable by title, date and format?
Danyl Strype Wed 2 Apr 2014 8:49AM
I really like the Rules of Civilized Discourse. The ‘If you see a problem flag it’ section got me to thinking, what if I could engage in an ‘act of facilitation’ (we’ve been discussion these elsewhere) by tagging comments in a non-threatening way. Eg an aggressive comment could be tagged with ‘I felt attacked when I read this comment’. Or maybe a mood-minding traffic light where friendly comments could be tagged as green, off-topic or confusing ones as amber, and aggressive or threatening ones as red?
Process note: I’m aware that the Loomio team have a well-established habit of using GoogleDocs. I’d like to encourage them (and everyone) to make use of the awesome paperclip tool to attach longer documents as a .PDF, a .TXT or in an OpenDocument format. This leads to a couple of …
Other feature requests:
1) it would be great to be able to attach documents to decision proposals and outcomes, and in the Context Box
2) it would be great to be able to browse all of a group's attached files from a library or archive page, maybe sortable by title, date and format?
Danyl Strype Wed 2 Apr 2014 8:51AM
Hmm. I did the usual delete-my-comment-in-order-to-edit-it but it took me to an error page telling me:
The change you wanted was rejected.
Maybe you tried to change something you didn't have access to.
Return to your home page
Tobias Eigen Tue 22 Apr 2014 4:23AM
+1 this is lovely - if it were still possible to vote for it I would do so! Really this should be put up as a community charter and all members here should have an opportunity to sign it!
Alanna Irving Tue 22 Apr 2014 5:43AM
Totally agree @tobiaseigen ! I'm excited for this feature to get developed so that kind of explicit agreement is easy to do :)
Tobias Eigen Tue 22 Apr 2014 2:18PM
@alanna wow you guys are far along :) so impressed.
Jochen Walter Thu 24 Jul 2014 9:45PM
Great. I agree (sorry, but the decision is closed ;o))
Joop Kiefte (LaPingvino) Sat 30 Aug 2014 10:21PM
I would suggest taking a look at the Discourse forum software for comunity-based software-aided moderation. Also the inclusion of document-creation software (e.g. the recently source-published open source Rizzoma) could be helpful in creating next steps.
goob · Sat 8 Mar 2014 9:56PM
Thanks, Richard.