Moderation Trial Period & Information on Global Moderation Roles

We are excited to announce the trial period with SC moderation tools! YAY! You can review more information about this update here and here.

Other communities included in this process are - Self-Harm Recovery, Trauma, POC & LGTBQ.

This is a unique opportunity to support our community and grow together. I am so happy to see these SC's come together to help out and participate in this special trial. We are thrilled to learn with them!

Here is how it will work:

For the month of December, we will turn on the locked moderation tools for these special selected sub-communities. For the purpose of this experiment, we will ask all participants of these communities to take a break from the global mod role so we can truly have an effective trial period. Fore, if everyone in the choosen SCs has global moderation abilities and SC moderation abilities, wed not have an effective trial - infact, we'd learn nothing. After this month, we will return the global moderation badges back to anyone who would like to have it back. This will give us plenty of time to learn, hear feedback and make tweaks as needed!

How will global moderation work?

This is for forum & group mods (teens & adults) - you all will be invited to become a global moderator. Some of you will not want to and that is cool, you can focus on your SC area. Others of you love the global mod role and have been trained to be global mods! We want to honor this role and your hard work in the rooms/ forums by allowing you to continue as a global moderator. This is for ALL existing moderators (forum & group). But for all new mentors/ moderators who apply in the future, we will ask that all mods apply to join a team within a subcommunity. The mods of the future will have 2 basic levels:

1. Subcommunity mod (forum or group)

2, Global mod - once they gain experience and trust in their SC, qualified applicants can apply to also be part of the global moderation teams. We are still working on the application process and criteria, your feedback welcome!

We are open to feedback on these ideas! We are really excited to learn and grow together!!!