Question

What is a moderator on openstudy?

Answer 1

Someone who moderates the site - keeps it clean.

Answer 2

Takes care of reports for spam, language, inappropriate content, direct answers etc. You will see the moderators have a purple box around their name and a purple username.

Answer 3

oh ok thank you. What are the people with the A thing?

Answer 4

Those are the ambassadors.

Answer 5

They help the mods, but kindly enforcing rules. Which helps the report ratio.

Answer 6

What is the difference between the two?

Answer 7

examples of mods:
@Miracrown
@hartnn

examples of ambi's:
@confluxepic
@TheSmartOne

Answer 8

correction, ambassadors do not enforce rules, they simply remind people of them @rebeccaxhawaii

Answer 9

Mods have more responsibility and power.

Answer 10

That is helping enforce the rules...

Answer 11

nope enforcing rules is warnings, suspensions, etc

Answer 12

reminding is what all ambis are trained to do, not enforce

Answer 13

welcome to open study :) @Chiharu-chan

Answer 14

So why is there ambassadors can't the mods do everything?

Answer 15

Chiharu if you have anymore questions feel free to pm me c: and take a look at this
http://openstudy.com/users/rebeccaxhawaii#/updates/56f5205ce4b07a8c82287f75

Ambi's are here to help out the mods.

Answer 16

A peanut.

Answer 17

we are all volunteers, moderators included, so mods are busy sometimes, ambassadors are mainly to help welcome new users as well :)

Answer 18

^^^ and also help users to follow rules, by giving encouragement.

Answer 19

oh I see thank you everyone for clearing some things up :D

Answer 20

therefore not enforcing :) no worries, we hope u enjoy your time here

Answer 21

Thanks so much

Answer 22

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correction, ambassadors do not enforce rules, they simply remind people of them @rebeccaxhawaii
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Correct. :)

Answer 23

The ones that enforce the rules are Moderators. :)

Answer 24

How to become a Moderator:

First rule: You must be 18+, due to legal issues.

Second rule: You have to be, and act mature.

Then you have to win the respect of this community through interaction, knowledge and the ability to interact and intervene in an appropriate manner. It is in big part based on participation, courtesy and respect.

The most important thing is that you let the administrators and moderators know that you can see things going awry, and that you are willing to make some effort to solve/prevent it.
And certainly NOT in a way like messaging them about how bad you want to be a moderator (this will only work contradictory), but they have to notice that you are up for the job.

Then, when they decide they need more moderators, you might get asked.

◘ Being on the site for a fair amount of time. (usually more than 6 months)
◘ Be a good and active user on the site
◘ Having a squeaky clean abuse record.
◘ Have good rapport with fellow users.
◘ 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.
◘ Hope you'll get lucky when they decide to add more moderators!

~thomaster

Answer 25

Hey there! I'm an ambassador! If you have any questions, feel free to message me! ^-^

Answer 26

mods ban and spend ppl and help os to stay clean

Answer 27

They spend people? Uhh... what market accepts humans as a currency? x'D

Answer 28

@likeabossssssss

Answer 29

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They spend people? Uhh... what market accepts humans as a currency? x'D
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looooool!!!
rip

Answer 30

o-o