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Guidelines
This chapterion describes the basic principles and gives some guidelines to ensure proper moderation.
Before you begin: some definitions
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Administrator: the person/group who runs the website. They are omnipotent.
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Moderator: a normal user, who has been given special rights by the administrator. He has the power to determine if a story shall be posted; and to edit stories. There is normally a team of moderators, to balance load and avoid personal bias.
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Scorer: a normal user, who has been given special rights by the administrator. He has the ability to score comments. This notion is only valid if you use the basic moderation system (on by default).
Basic principles of daCode
A daCode system is fuelled by its users: they bring in new content. The moderators are there only to control the correct working of the site.
The users' entries are divided in two categories: contributions and comments. The contributions are moderated: before they appear, a moderator has to approve the publishing. Usual contribution types are news, tips and polls and images for the webcam module.
As for the comments, they are not moderated. They constitute the discussions attached to the contributions. Having to wait a for moderator to approve your posts would kill the discussion! So they are scored by people called scorers. The scores range from -1 (the worst) to 5. The user only sees the comments with a score higher than a selected limit, by default 1, sometimes 0. So one needs a voluntary action to view a comment score at -1.
If you chose the LinuxFR moderation system (see the configuration parameter moderation_type), evrey user is a scorer. They have experience points, which give them a number of votes. One vote allows you to change the note of a comment by one point. So the scores range is minus infinity to plus infinity, and the limits are calculated from last week scores average.
Moderation rules
First and foremost, as a moderator or scorer, you should avoid any bias, and let people have their say. You have the power of censorship but try not to use it!
Before moderating news, always try to verifiy it. Don't hesitate to ask for confirmation in the body of the news if you're unsure. A news should also bring something new to the table. Just delete those that have already been published on the site! For the rest of the guidelines, ask the site's administrator.
As for scoring the comments, you must avoid any bias. A good comment is a comment that relates to the news's subjet, with a clear argumentation, no matter what opinion expressed. Always tell yourself that it is a free discussion space.