Moderation Resources¶

Examples of Good Moderation/Trust-and-Safety Practices:

• Discourse: https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/
• Discord: Safety Library

Other communities/platforms with their own approaches:

• BlueSky: Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation 2024-03 – community labeling services with "Ozone"; Moderation in a Public Commons 2023-06 – an early indroduction to their efforts.
• Hylo: What Makes Hylo Different? – "a prosocial community platform for purpose-driven groups" – docs include admin guide, admin privileges

Analysis of specific issues in existing platforms:

• Bluesky: Bluesky's user safety situation – discusses several problems and difficulties – (jesopo, 2023)
• Matrix: Matrix notes: Moderation – (The Anarcat, 2022) – summary with some details of current tools, capabilities, problems.

Groups working on Public Spaces or related Public Infrastructure:

• Public Spaces Incubator announcement

Philosophy and approaches to online spaces moderation:

• Moderation & the design of social platforms – (R Atkinson of PieFed, 2024) – "What I think a moderator is supposed to accomplish" – with a Fediverse angle
• A conceptual framework for the mutual shaping of platform features, affordances and norms on social media

Research by New_Public (draft):

• Norms: Features & Patterns Audit – summarises T&S/moderation features of Discourse and several other platforms.
• Kinds of moderators and moderation (1)
• Proactive moderation & design interventions (1)