The purpose of the Forum Moderator Role

Forum Moderator is responsible for the facilitation, review, and guidance of a discussion or a debate and its related interactions. Moderators use a standard or guideline to ensure that all the content shared during a discussion or debate is appropriate and adheres to the Forum Moderation Rule rules.

Moderator has to be ensure that he/she covers these action points:

• Discussions Facilitation;
• Thematic Control;
• Content Relevance;
• Orderly Conduct.

Tools are required:

• Console Emulator - Terminal (MacOS) or Cmder (Windows)
• Markdown Editor - Dillinger (online markdown editor)

How to apply for the role:

To apply for the position of Forum Moderator is quiet easy. You should find the opening, fill the survey and send an application. Make sure if opening is still relevant. It’s better to ask Forum Lead.

Useful links:

1. About Forum (in Handbook)
2. Forum Moderation Rules
3. How-to Setup Joystream CLI
4. Joystream CLI Commands
5. Joystream Pioneer Forum

Category Structure

List of Categories

Forum Moderation CLI Commands accessible by Forum Lead and Workers

• Move thread

joystream-cli forum:moveThread -c categoryID -t threadID -n newcategoryID 

e.g. joystream-cli forum:moveThread -c 100  -t 200  -n 300

Video Tutorial: How to Move Threads via CLI

• How to “sticky” threads

joystream-cli forum:setStickiedThreads --categoryId categoryID --threadId threadID

e.g. joystream-cli forum:setStickiedThreads --categoryId 25 --threadId 30

• Moderate thread (Delete thread)

joystream-cli forum:moderateThread -c categoryID -t threadID -r "Rationale"

e.g. joystream-cli forum:moderateThread -c 100  -t 200  -r "duplicated thread"

Video Tutorial: How to Delete Threads via CLI

Forum Moderation CLI Commands accessible by Forum Lead only

• Create category

joystream-cli forum:createCategory -t "Title" -d "Description"

• Delete category

joystream-cli forum:deleteCategory -c categoryID

e.g. joystream-cli forum:deleteCategory -c 10

Forum Moderation Extrinsics Commands accessible by Forum Lead and Workers

• Move thread

  1. Visit: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc.joystream.org%3A9944#/extrinsics

  2. Choose your forum lead/moderator root account on ‘using the selected account’

     

  3. On ‘submit the folllowing extrinsics’ choose “forum”. Then, choose ‘moveThreadToCategory…’

     

  4. On ‘categoryID’ type existing category #, on ‘threadID’ type thread #, on ‘newCategoryId’ type intended new category #

     

  5. Click ‘Submit Transaction’ and sign wallet

     

• Moderate thread (Delete thread)

  1. Visit: https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Frpc.joystream.org%3A9944#/extrinsics

  2. Choose your forum lead/moderator root account on ‘using the selected account’

     

  3. On ‘submit the folllowing extrinsics’ choose “forum”. Then, choose ‘moderateThread…’

     

  4. Type category ID # and thread ID #

     

  5. Type the reason for moderating the thread

     

  6. Click ‘Submit Transaction’ and sign wallet