For most of 2024, we’ve been working on a trial of “Community Moderation”.
“Community Moderation” means:
- “a system that lets more members of the OGS community take part in the moderation process without having to be ‘full moderators’”.
The goal is to make moderation of “routine” reports much more scalable (able to handle the hundreds of reports we get weekly), without needing to find more members who are both willing and suitable to take on the onerous “full moderator” duties.
You can read more about it here.
Community Moderation currently handles
- “Stopped Playing (escaping)”,
- “Stalling” and
- “Score Cheating” reports
(excluding reports about bots, which go to the bot-owner).
During 2024, the trial community moderators have handled thousands of your reports (nearing 10,000), and got the queue down to “less than a day for all reports of those types”.
You can now see a little more about this system.
- Under the “Tools” menu there is a new “Reports Center” item.
In there you can click on “Community Moderation” and see
- The count of reports and outcomes over time (recent only)
- The state of the report queue (the age of the oldest report)
- You can read about the “Guidelines for judging reports”
These guidelines have been drafted through extensive discussion among the community moderators (~20 very active OGS members).
Further comment/discussion is welcome: these guidelines are supposed to capture “what the community as a whole wants”.
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What is the intended way to find these guidelines?
If I to the OGS GitHub main page, there’s no link to the guidelines, at least that I could see.
In order to find these new guidelines:
1: I search the forums for “community”
2: find this thread, and press the link from here.
Well, I bookmarked them, but there’s probably a much more straight forward way.
I had imagined these “normal” ways:
- This thread, which provides the context.
( Actually, I should have got this thread pinned, so new people see it, perhaps 
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Folk reading OGS documentation and finding them there as part of that.
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Someone complains about a community moderation decision, and they are referred to them.
I think the last one is the only practical one: they aren’t the kind of thing people just go and read for fun, typically 
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I just go on OGS => “Community” => “Documentation & FAQ”
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That lands you here
but I think what @JohnnieDarko is saying here
is that on the GitHub docs page even, there isn’t a simple link to the community guidelines.
As in in these table of contents
It is way below though, but whether that’s always shown or filtered/ordered by recently edited pages, I don’t know
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Thanks all. I hadn’t noticed that the box below the FAQ contained links not shown above.
My partner loves that I read the manual of every device we buy front to back so she doesn’t have to, and at times even the rulebook of a new sport we take up. But yes, I agree that this behavior is an outlier… 
I can see that having all the separate guidelines take up space in the table of content is maybe not necessary. What do you think about a single header on this page, above/below the ToS, with links to the Guidelines. This would only add a single entry in the Table of Contents.
Small detail, this is the link from the Table of Contents to the ToS. I think it’s supposed to automatically scroll down to the Terms of Service paragraph, but it doesn’t (the page opens at the top).
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Does this one work better
That’s what I got when I clicked the linked chain icon beside it
https://github.com/online-go/online-go.com/wiki/Getting-Started-%7C-Creating-and-Adjusting-Your-Account#terms-of-service-tos
compared to
https://github.com/online-go/online-go.com/wiki/Getting-Started-%7C-Creating-and-Adjusting-Your-Account#terms-of-service
I think it’s just the extra -tos at the end.
(I think maybe the page got renamed or something? I guess some things don’t auto-update, if it’s from the toc. We can probably update that as well )
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Yes, that link scrolls to the ToS paragraph
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