Hello users of Hexbear while we are always accepting moderation applications I would like to begin another formal volunteer drive.
Those of you interested in volunteering as a moderator, can send me your responses to the application questions below using either hexbear direct message or matrix message.
The answers may be as short or as long as you feel is adequate.
Application
What is your Hexbear username?
Do you have any preferred pronouns?
What are your thoughts on capitalism?
What are your thoughts on imperialism?
What are your thoughts on Palestine?
What are your thoughts on trans rights?
What are your thoughts on racial justice?
What do think about current and previous protests around the world?
What are your thoughts on Veganism and Animal Liberation?
Do you have any experience with other leftist online communities?
What did those experiences teach you?
What is your approach to moderation, and how do you work with teams?
How do you deal with online drama and people who try to start things for the sake of it?
What current communities would you be interested in moderating?
Would you like to create a new community?
Do you have any ideas for community engagement?
What is your general time availability? (Time zone, amounts, common browsing times, etc)
Element information
Element is a messaging app that lets you talk to people over the Matrix
protocol.
To get started, check out this link, where you can choose to either download Element for your platform or, if on a computer, open it in a browser.
The instructions that follow are for the desktop application and the web application, but the process is similar on all apps:
Press "Create Account"
Fill in a username and password
Hit register, and you're done!
We ask pronouns in the event a user doesn't want to display their pronouns publicly but wishes to be called by the pronouns in private conversations.
The more complicated the question process is more time we need to spend working through them. The current question responses cover areas of theory that has resulted in site wide struggle sessions. We have received vague answers and really in-depth answers to the current question list, then we look at the user's profile and if there is any mod action against them.
I would like to share your questions with the other admins so that we can modify the mod question list for next time. It will take some time and effort to get the list down as you said with some of your additions it would be too large of a hurdle for people but I really like your questions. Thank you
Ya it's way too much. But it was already way too much.
I understand it's a mobius strip because you have to do the things that have been previously committed to in context of specific problems that arose. And that'll only get longer and longer as time goes on. So you probably don't want to add a bunch of BS from here.
Trying to think of questions that would elicit honest, complicated and partly-"wrong" answers.
Individual people don't need to be perfect. In building a project committee it's more important to balance the strengths so overall the collective can accomplish everything. So you need to know what you are already working with (which I can have no insight on) to decide what to focus on bringing in.
Or you just accept everyone who doesn't say anything extremely fucked up? Realistically that's probably what I'd do. Just start small in terms of responsibility.
A lot of the questions could be asked once you accept an application, that way the application would be shorter.
For me these questions don't seem necessary to decide whether you'd accept an application or not, but ofc you know better. After accepting an application an experience mod could ask them about online drama and moderation, and provide some guidance or even "approved answers", call it training lol.