User:T3CHNOCIDE/User rights/Forum moderators

Forum moderators are voluntary overseers of the wiki's forums feature. Forum moderators act to prevent spam, maintain an orderly and civil atmosphere on the forums, and uphold compliance to the forum rules. As the forums are a social feature of the wiki, users do not have to be active or experienced editors on the wiki to become a forum moderator.

Expectations
Forum moderators are expected to be active members of the forums who regularly participate in the community. They are also expected to have good knowledge of the forum rules and express good judgement when determining if a users actions were made in good faith when contributing to the forums or to purposefully disrupt, spam or provoke users or the forums.

Forum moderators should be polite and professional in their communication, with a patient and understanding temperament. They should warn and report users who are seen to actively be spamming or provoking the forums; while at the same time guide and not intimidate users who are trying to take part in forum discussions by lack understanding of the forums' behaviour expectations.

Tools
As Forum moderators are a primarily forum monitors, their tools are focused on warning and removing problematic users. To perform this monitoring role, Forum Moderators have the following added user tools:


 * Highlight thread – Highlight a thread creating a notification to all users.
 * Edit thread – Edit the content of a thread.
 * Move thread – Move a thread to a different board.
 * Remove thread – Delete a thread from the forums.
 * Close thread – Close a thread to new comments.
 * Edit comment – Edit the content of a reply.
 * Remove comment – Delete a reply from a thread.

List of Forum Moderators
The following is a list of Forum Moderators on the wiki. Users may contact one of the following users to report problematic users or request a Forum Moderators help:





It is important to note that Administrators automatically have Forum Moderator rights by default.

Becoming a Chat Moderator
Forum moderators are comprised of voluntary users who are elected by community consensus. If a user meets the requirements they are able to apply on the Requests for Forum Moderator page. Here community members can vote in support or opposition of a users addition to the user group. When the user gains a sufficient amount of support they are added to the group. The requirements to qualify for Forum Moderator user rights are:


 * 2 months experience on the forums; through sustained activity.
 * 50 main-space edits
 * No questionable activity on the forums within 6 months, and on the wiki within 3 months, of applicaiton.

Review of Forum Moderators
If Forum Moderators are seen to be misusing their tools, to be playing a detrimental role to the wiki or to have been absent for an extended period of time they could be subject to review of their position. Not all instances of inactivity or presumed misuse of tools denote the need for user rights review. Each review is met on a case by case basis.

If a user believes a Forum Moderator necessitates a review of their user rights they can propose it on the User group review page. Here users can discuss and vote whether a user's user rights should be relinquished.

Restoration of a Forum Moderators
Users who were previously a member of the Forum Moderator user group may be restored to Forum Moderator on request. Restoration of a user's Forum Moderator rights may occur when the reason for previous user rights removal was due to inactivity, voluntary removal or following community consensus permitting return to the user group. If loss of previous user rights was not during or as a result of controversial circumstances, then re-discussion or re-application for the user group is not necessary.