Hi. I moderate for a message board site which is possibly going to switch to Discourse.
The moderators at this site post, but regular members are not aware of which other posters are moderators. We do this by having two accounts, one regular, and one with moderation abilities.
Is there a way to hide the moderator icon so that we can use the moderator account to post, without it being visible that we are moderators?
Thanks.
Interesting, I don’t think there is any way to do this other than switching between two accounts. Browser profiles are useful for this, e.g. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2089364/how-to-create-and-manage-multiple-user-profiles-in-chrome.html
@NewMod, I am curious, if you don’t mind. Why do you keep who is a moderator private?
Thank you. I will look.
We will probably end up using two browsers, as we currently do.
Good question. When I started, that was the protocol, so I can only guess why it was implemented that way.
My guess is that if a member knows that I deleted his/her post(s), that will cause some bad feelings, and it will be difficult to keep an amicable relationship.
Interesting. To the best of my knowledge, Discourse does not reveal to a user that their post was deleted, let alone who deleted it (but I’d ask @codinghorror to be sure). In the site I help moderate, we (the mods) participate as regular users, and moderate as needed. It has never caused an issue for us, and part of the reason why (I think) is that we maintain clear rules/guidelines so no one is confused when something happens.
You could try using CSS
i.fa.fa-shield {
display:none;
}
Not sure about the About page that lists Admins and Moderators. Or the Groups page.
Non-Moderator members won’t see the “post deleted by” posts, but they will still see “Closed by” and “Pinned by” etc. posts.
So I think you could make it less likely for members to find out who the Moderators are, but the only sure way is to have two accounts and remember to not post something while in non-Mod mode that will give it away.
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.”
Thanks for your help.
私たちも同様の状況にあります。数百人のアクティブユーザーからなる小規模なコミュニティで、全員が互いを知っています。@david による GitHub - discourse/discourse-anonymous-moderators · GitHub を使い始めています。これにより、モデレーターが公開アイデンティティと匿名アイデンティティの間を簡単に切り替えられるようになります。
通常のモデレーションは、私たちの名前とユーザーアカウントを使って行いますが、制裁を科す必要がある場合や、誰が対応したかを公開したくない場合は、共通のモデレーターアカウントと管理者アカウントを使用しています。
私はそれを使わず、いつも自分のアカウントを使用する傾向にあります。
しかし、アカウントを変更せずに匿名でモデレーションできるそのプラグインは興味深いですね。
モデレーターの設定では、下にスクロールして「タイトル」を選択し、「なし」を選ぶことができます。モデレーターには「なし」「リーダー」「一般」の選択肢があります。私自身は管理者かつモデレーターですが、個人設定で「なし」を選択しているため、名前の後には何も表示されません。タイトルも盾も、何も表示されません。必要であれば「一般」を選択することもでき、その場合は表示されます。