On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 at 17:42, Kevin Smith via Members <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4 Mar 2026, at 17:34, Dave Cridland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 at 11:20, Matthew Wild <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2. Significant moderation decisions may be reported to the Board or >> Conduct Team as appropriate. > > > When I wrote the CoC, I assumed that a moderation team would be the same > thing as a conduct team - or rather, the other way around, with the conduct > team being visible and proactively moderating as needed. I also assumed Board > would want to get a conduct team in place really quickly. > > Should be Moderation team just be the Conduct team? If not, why not? > > > I could easily imagine someone being will to act in the relatively tight > confines of ‘bad stuff happening in MUCs, let’s head it off’ while not > wanting to be responsible for the big ticket items and appeals that the > conduct team would be responsible for. I can also imagine that if most stuff > is being handled by a moderation team that the need for a Conduct Team > distinct from Board is reduced. So I quite like the split, although if there > was an active conduct team serving both purposes, that seems fine too.
Agreed. I'm not strictly opposed to the two teams being the same team, but I think there is value in having them separate, although they will obviously work very closely with each other at times. I think it would be easier to scale the moderation team, because it is less of a commitment. And we certainly need more people helping with enforcement than we have now. Formally establishing a non-Board Conduct Team and assigning them sole responsibility for moderation would be a valid alternative route. But I worry it would hinder efforts at improving moderation if we can't recruit enough people. Plus I actually kind of like the Board == Conduct Team situation, as Board is directly elected by the members and therefore automatically rotating (slowly, but our existing work teams rotate far more slowly). Regards, Matthew
