What are the duties of a Moderator?

The forum staff have several light duties; for starters they police their assigned forums for misplaced postings and spam. Misplaced postings get moved to the proper forums and spam gets sent to the "Boneyard" forum and the post itself flagged for an admin to purge the user.

Moderators are responsible for attempting to assist users at every avenue in their postings; since most users come here asking for help for one thing or another it's basically just answering normal day to day questions.

We also ask that moderators attempt to make new posts in their assigned sections as a way of sparking conversation.

Moderators are to attempt to view the Site and Forum Rules as "Guidelines"; they're not set in stone, but should be followed and action taken when abused.

Whenever a member is contacted by a moderator as a representative of A Gardeners Forum the moderator must log the conversation in the staff forum; this is so that the staff knows and understands what is going on and can assist when needed.

All staff must understand that while they're "working" they are a representative of A Gardeners Forum and therefore must put all personal feelings towards other members aside or their actions may warrant a demotion.
Posted By Gremelin Posted on July 7th, 2013 · Updated on May 9th, 2014

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