Disclaimer: Please read the full post before commenting. This post will be refined overtime, so I highly encourage to check back if there are any updates!
Hey everyone!
My name is Francis and I am a DEV user for 6 months. There is something I want to reveal...
I am a Trusted Member AND a Tag Moderator for the #discuss (https://dev.to/t/discuss). With both, I am a DEV Community Mod! :D
My goal as a DEV Community Moderator is to ensure the community abides DEV's Mission and their Terms of Service when it comes to implementing best practices to writing articles and interacting with the community.
A guide for community interaction and getting started on DEV can be found here:
The Goal of this Post!
I want to create a thread that allow users to ask questions and get a response in a timely manner. As a DEV Mod, I want to ensure you have your questions answered from a Mod perspective.
@ben, @jess and the rest of the DEV Team are extremely busy, especially with the acquisition of Major League Hacking.
A lot is happening behind the scenes at DEV and I believe I want to take the responsibility to answers questions and concerns as we are moving forward. It will save valuable time for the DEV team!
If you have questions about:
- AI usage on DEV and ways I can improve my Moderation.
- Questions on how to use DEV.
- What a Community Mod can and cannot do.
- Other fun Icebreakers (Love to chat!).
Note: Any questions related to how DEV and MLH team operates internally can be contacted through to the DEV team email: yo@dev.to
I would love to hear from you!
Q/A
The article is based on these key factors: User activity, reading the article in its entirety, running via GPTzero. No favoritism is involve in the decision making whether the post is consider high or low quality. If you believe there is a mistake or that you notice something different when posting content on DEV (such as visibility and Sloan Messages), let me know! How do you determine the Article's Quality?
Nah. It's a bot that Community Moderators control. Note that Tag Moderators exclusively do not have this power. Is "Sloan" a real person?
No. There are others out there like me. According to @jess, I am the most active Moderator currently. Note that Moderation changes will be implemented in the future. I recommend revisiting this post for updates! Hey all, just wanted to share that we'll be updating our general moderation guidelines and tooling for the community soon. A lot goes on behind-the-scenes that's a combination of manual moderation and automated spam detection. There is a lot of nuance here that requires constant adjustment and rebalancing. I'll note that there are hundreds of mods with the ability to send messages via Sloan, so not all of it has fallen on Francis's shoulders - though we deeply appreciate his dedication to the the community, and he is by far one of our most active volunteer moderators. We'll share a more substantial update on community moderation and our perspective on AI-assisted content in the next few weeks. Are you the only Moderator?
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Jess Lee
Jun 16
