The moderator is the user of a forum or a chat on the Internet allocated in comparison with other users of a resource wider powers. As a rule, the moderator has rights to delete and edit messages of users, to issue to users warnings and even completely to prohibit participation in a forum or a chat for some time or ("ban") constantly. Ensuring compliance with rules of a resource by its users belongs to duties of the moderator.
To become the moderator of any popular resource, it is necessary to fulfill requirements imposed by administration of this resource to candidates. Here several examples of the main requirements to potential moderators:
- To become the moderator of the popular rutracker.org torrent tracker, it is necessary that the experience of the user of the tracker made not less than 3 months, and the number of messages made not less than 100 that is an activity Besides, the ability to show tranquility and steadiness in conflict situations is necessary, it is good to be guided in the selected section of a forum of the tracker and, naturally, not to have warnings and notes from administrators and moderators.
- For moderators of the popular iXBT.com resource it is necessary not to be younger than 20 years, to be guided in forum questions (to be the expert there is no need, but also there will be not enough knowledge of the beginner), to have a presence experience at a forum not less than 6 months and an experience without notes and warnings not less than 12 months and also to have enough free time to have an opportunity daily to execute the moderator's duties. Certainly, from the moderator it is required to know rules of a forum and to share a position of administration on key questions.
- In Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) of a duty similar to the moderator's duties, administrators execute. A task of the administrator is detection and rollback of vandal changes in the fastest terms, blocking of breakers of rules of the project, removal and recovery of pages, protection of pages (the measure allowing to prohibit changes before completion of discussion of a question and finding of consensus by warring parties). In administrators accept users who made not less than 1000 changes and whose registration experience in the project makes not less than 6 months.