More features will be coming to Utopian soon than ever! But before we start working on the very exciting upcoming features, we need to make sure we have moderation in shape.
In order to keep the Review stream running smoothly, we need an abundance of quality moderators and we need to keep the contribution quality on Utopian as high as possible.
However, becoming or adding a moderator has been very hard previously. Therefore, I have introduced moderator referrals to Utopian!
Additionally, another missing feature was the ability to ban users from the platform temporarily or permanently. Perma-bans will likely be used for users who are consistently disobeying the Utopian Rules and are spamming posts. Temporary bans will be used as a "warning" to alert users who disobey the Rules and keep post spam to a minimum.
These features are available to select moderators right now!
The New View
To the right is a depiction of the 'new look' for the sidebar. If you are a regular user or regular moderator, you may not see the bottom two buttons.
However, select moderators will be able to access 'supermoderation' features such as the Moderator Referral or User Ban features.
Bans
Clicking on Ban User brings up this modal below:
There are many options for when the user ban can expire. If a user does get banned, unbanning is just as trivial. Click the green "Unban User" button to see this modal:
Lastly, we have a built in banned screen for those who do get banned. Banning simply (temporarily) removes the ability to make contributions. When a banned user attempts to make a contribution, they'll see something like this:
The Ban Reason is written in purple and is italicized to make sure it catches the user's attention, so they know exactly what they did wrong to cause the ban. A user can never ban himself or unban himself, of course :)
Moderator Referral
Until now, becoming a Utopian Moderator was not a very easy process and required a lot of external contact and connections. Now, it's much easier for select existing moderators to grow the list of quality Utopian mods using this feature!
Simply go to the user's Profile Page (e.g. https://utopian.io/@mooncryption) and click 'Refer Moderator' to refer them as a moderator.
You'll be greeted with a modal explaining the responsibilities and requirements of doing this. Once you go over the details and click the big 'Refer Moderator' button, the new user will now have new moderation abilities.
However, you can easily also remove moderation abilities if you feel the user did not use them wisely.
If the user is already a moderator under your control, you'll see this new option rather than 'Refer Moderator':
Clicking on it, you can revoke moderation abilities from that user.
These features are only available to a select number of moderators right now, but hopefully they'll be grown to more moderators in the future!
Thanks for reading,
— @mooncryption
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Wow. A big improvement to the community.I was really worried with the growing number of contributers and static nature of moderators where they will be upto the task. I think this new feature will help eliminate and reduce the workload on our moderators. Kudls
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But tell me if a normal user who isn't known to existing moderators wants to become a moderator and has all the qualities to qualify for this job, how is he/she supposed to be an utopian-io moderator?
I think there should be a better way to do this! @mooncryption
We're not accepting open applications just yet because we anticipate the demand will be higher than we need. Also, quality really really matters for moderation, more than just getting more moderators.
If you think you have what it takes, DM me (@mooncryption) on Discord and I'll connect you to the right people.
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wow! All that looks very usefull and necessary :)
Yeah :)
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great features to be added and will help mods well, get the good eggs out from the bad,, amd for the refer a mod, its a great work i can't lie you, reading all those post finding if they are any similar ones like that oooh meehn, the lord is your strength but in that future i will be a mod i love that job hahah ☺ ☺
Hey Moon! This looks like great news for the community! You need all the help you can get as things continue to grow.
Is there a succinct post somewhere talking about life as a Utopian Moderator? Do you need to know or understand code? What kind of time requirements are expected to spend moderating the platform, that sort of thing. I'd love to be able to contribute to Utopian, but need to figure out how! :-)
There aren't any strict guidelines as to how much you need to do, but you do need to be very strict with your moderation.
I'm not sure if there's a post like that, but I hope someone will make one soon! I may not be the most experienced moderator, but moderators like @espoem and @arie.steem have a lot of experience with it :)
I'm loving it! These are great new features to improve the quality and facilitate the growth of #utopian-io.
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this is cool. I would guess that banning is a tricky thing, but because Steemit doesn't ban users, i see this as not a problem.....good thing Steemit doesn't ban......not everyone is of a high quality mindset...