Hello everyone, your friendly neighborhood Mumberthrax here with a followup on our last community discussion, which was about moderation of the subverse. I want to thank everyone who shared their thoughts on moderation of the subverse. It really means a lot to hear from each of you about how you want the subverse to be run.

Open Source Moderation

Rather than me establish a policy here and now on how things will go, I'd much rather do what I can to ensure that everyone in the community has a say in any major changes that happen here. So to do that /v/conspiracy is "open source"-ing the moderation of this subverse through a github project containing all settings for the subverse, css, sidebar text, rules, and a not-yet-drafted moderation policy document which will cover the topics we discussed in the last post (responsibilities, activity levels, transparency, and how new mods are added).

The next step in this process is drafting a complete policy document based on the suggestions and ideas discussed in the last post, as well as discussions in ages past. The other mods and I will work on this. Once it's drafted, we'll solicit feedback from everyone again, probably have some sort of vote to confirm or deny it. So stay tuned for that. :]

Modteam lineup

I'll not be adding any new moderators at this time for a few reasons:

• There isn't sufficient workload to warrant it - no spam or memes, almost no racism to moderate

• We don't have an official community-sanctioned process in place to determine how new mods are added

I'll also not be removing any existing moderators at this time, since there is no apparent misconduct going on presently, the active mods seem pretty chill, and the inactive ones (@zenof and @alllie) have been sent a message inquiring about their intentions as mods and intended activity levels. If I receive no response from those two within two weeks, they'll be removed. If I do hear from them, then we'll work from there to figure out what to do.

I'd like to encourage our current mods to keep on keeping on, just as they have been. You guys are cool.

Ideally once we have a formal moderation policy document in place, it will outline what should be done for removing mods and adding new ones.

Miscellanea

• A link to /v/ConspiracyMeta has been added to the sidebar. Please feel free to make use of it to discuss any issues relating to the subverse. Feel free to cross-post between both it and /v/conspiracy if that is to your liking.

• In the interest of transparency I've been keeping a log of any actions I take as a moderator on /v/conspiracy. https://gist.github.com/Mumberthrax/ca923781f609aff59459

• I've created /v/Ideasforconspiracy, sort of like /v/ideasforvoat, but for our sub. This way brainstorming can be ongoing rather than only on stickied discussion posts. It might be redundant what with /v/conspiracymeta already existing, but if it turns out to not be useful then nothing is really lost.

• The link to the github project, in case you missed it, is https://github.com/VoatConspiracy/VoatConspiracy - feel free to make any pull requests you like, or to suggest changes here or on /v/conspiracymeta.

That's it for this followup post. Thanks for reading, and for chilling with us tinfoil hat types on /v/conspiracy!