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Moderator Guidelines

Post by Crystal » Mon Sep 17, 2012 3:59 pm

You may be noticing some changes to how we handle this forum! To help make this site better than ever, we the moderating team have created the following guidelines for ourselves to follow in our moderating duties as we move forward:
  1. Moderators will strive to be approachable, professional, impartial, & diplomatic in moderating duties.
  2. Moderators will generally intervene as little as possible with our established members, but will still prioritize checking on posts which are reported using the anonymous post/PM report feature - therefore, if you see something that concerns you about a post/PM (potential rules violation, something that makes you uncomfortable, etc.), please alert our moderating team by reporting it.
  3. Most moderating tasks will be carried out as privately as possible to prevent any unintended embarrassment. Announcements (usually made within the affected thread) may be made if a thread needs to be edited, split, or moved by a moderator, however, so that members may be made aware of changes relevant to their experience on the forum.
  4. Members who have unintentional/non-egregious TOS violations in their posts (such as formatting issues) will be given an opportunity to edit their own post to bring it into compliance if a rules violation is identified. The post may be hidden until the necessary edits have been completed.
  5. Moderators will not announce nor discuss warnings/suspensions/bans with anyone other than the individual involved. Bans are reserved as a permanent, last-resort action for those members who repeatedly or egregiously violate our terms of service, which is to say that bans only occur for a very good reason, and are always undertaken with heavy consideration. We consider these sorts of actions serious and private matters, and we handle them as such.
If you have questions or concerns about any of this, feel free to PM me or any of the other members of the moderating team, or drop us a line to our new shared group e-mail account: support@finchforum.com !

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