Question

What's the difference between moderators and ambassadors?

Answer 1

I would like at least one mod and one ambi to answer. I'm just curious as to what they do when they come on, and what are the requirements to be either.

Answer 2

An Ambassadors job is to:
- Welcome new comers to the site.
- Tell them about the COC, chat, and protocol of the site.
- Make them feel good and help them join/feel a part of the community.
- Teach them how to give medals when someone helps them, and encourage them to close their questions when done.
- Be a friend, mentor, and guide to users on the site.
- Invite friends and spread the good word about OpenStudy.
- Use social media - FB and Tw to post good things about OpenStudy.

You can apply for ambassador here:
http://blog.openstudy.com/2014/01/30/openstudys-diplomatic-corps/

Moderators also do many of those things, but they are also tasked with enforcing the rules and take action when people don't follow them.

Their job is to:
- Settle conflicts
- Remove inappropriate content from the site (foul language, insults, sexual comments, cheating, spam and other stuff)
- Send warnings to users who are not following the rules (CoC and TaC)
- Suspend users who do not listen to warnings
- Deal with a lot of shine and fan mail

Their abilities:
- Warn users
- Suspend users for a suitable amount of time
- IP Check to detect suspension evading
- Kick users out of study groups
- Delete
-- Questions
-- Question Answers
-- Chat messages
-- Testimonials
- Close Questions
- Bump Questions
- Edit Questions

For becoming a mod, you must be 18+, due to legal issues, and be, and act mature.
You can't apply for the job. When admins decide they need more moderators, you might get asked.

The following points will help them to choose who is eligible:
- Being on the site for a fair amount of time. (usually more than 6 months)
- Be an good and active user on the site
- Having a squeaky clean abuse record.
- Having good rapport with fellow users.
- Getting recommended by a moderator.
- Having a good sense of justice.
- Being an expert in some field.
Most of the mods are math geniuses, but any subject would suffice.
- Doing a great job in the ambassador program.
In the ambassador training period, you'll learn how the rules work on OpenStudy and you'll learn how to make the right decisions. Also you'll have a bigger chance of being noticed by the admins.

Hope that anwsers the question :)

Answer 3

Wow, it sure does, Thank you for such an amazing answer.