Stewards & moderators are important
Group administrators promote their group through their real-life social networks. Since they have such a good understanding of the movement’s principles, these are relayed with enthusiasm and passion. This gets passed through friends and friends-of-friends like a wave. The enthusiasm and passion exchanged is just not comparable to receiving a link... See more
Gifting with Integrity: Federated Digital Spaces for Mutual Aid Networks
The group administrators are responsible for bringing the movement's principles from theory into action. Every group administrator who set up a Buy Nothing group was asked to complete the Buy Nothing training linked above. This included introducing ideas like: what is a gift economy; understanding the benefits of diversity; understanding the issues... See more
Gifting with Integrity: Federated Digital Spaces for Mutual Aid Networks
When All You Have is a Banhammer: The Social and Communicative Work of Volunteer Moderators
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It feels like the fundamental problem in massive social networks is that software scales, but moderation doesn’t really.
The Role of Moderators in Facilitating and Encouraging Peer-to ...
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