Goal (Mission Statement)

The goal of the Moderation Team is to create a safe environment for everyone in the openSUSE Community on all platforms, to ensure that the Guiding Principals are upheld, and to take action in the case of violations of the same. This means we're aiming at our regular communications between the mods and admins on all of our various platforms, including but not limited to:

• Twitter [1]

• Facebook [1]

• Reddit

• Telegram

• Discord

• Mailing lists

• forums-o-o

• IRC

• Bugzilla

• build-o-o

We seek to unify moderation practices across all of our platforms meaning that every platform will share the same fundamental rules.

[1] Although they can't be fully moderated, they can be monitored for inappropriate behavior and for ensuring that openSUSE members behave in a respectful manner under the openSUSE umbrella

Moderation Team (Public) [FIXME] (Maurizio)

• Layout structure of the team i.e 2 representatives per platform

• Representatives are appointed by the mods of the platform

• Point of contact: mods-team@lists.opensuse.org is the invitation only ML decided for the Mod Team

How are moderators elected/appointed (Public)

• Each platform admins/mods elect/appoints moderators for their respective platforms to represent the platform on the mods-team

• In addition, the mods-team may request or recommend an individual to join the mods-team from a platform

• There are no term-limits to the mods-team and a team member can leave at any time by notifying the mods-team through the mailing list mods-team@lists.opensuse.org

Issue Workflow (Public):

1. Platform Mods acknowledge issue for their respective platform

2. Platform team works to:

• A. Confirm the issue is valid with the submitter of the issue (eliminate false positives)
• B. Bring the complaint the the attention of the individual in question
• C. Establish safety - you're not trying to ban them or discourage them from participating.
• D. Guidance - Provide best-practices and suggestions to the individual in question (see best-practices document)
• E. Determine action - make sure to end the conversation with an agreement about what steps will be taken towards improvement.
• F. Follow-up - Mods to check with individual(s) to ensure that inappropriate conduct has ceased.
• G. Log issue - Log affected members and any actions taken.
• H. Escalation of issue to mods-team as needed

Consequence Escalation Public

1. Warnings

• A. Warnings are issued by the moderators of the respective platform. 2. Temporary Banning (Repeated offenses, other actions)

• A. 1 day ban, 3 days ban, 7 days, 30 days ban etc - are your options depending on how severe it is.

• B. Permanent ban should be brought up for discussion with the rest of the team.
• C. Self-promotion 3. Permanent Banning

The following violations will result in an immediate ban from all platforms:

• • Spamming
  • • URL redirection
  • • Bitcoin/crypto advertisements
  • • Commercial advertisements
  • • Sharing pornography or sexual content
  • • Extremist propaganda
  • • Hate speech
  • • Phishing and other malicious activities
  • • Additional violations can be applied at the discretion of the mods of each individual platform