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.
我们也有类似的情况——一个只有几百名活跃用户的小型社区，大家彼此都认识。我们开始使用 @david 开发的 https://github.com/discourse/discourse-anonymous-moderators。它让版主可以轻松地在公开身份和匿名身份之间切换。
我们通常使用自己的姓名和用户账号进行常规审核，但在需要实施制裁且不希望公开具体执行者身份的情况下，我们会使用一个通用的版主账号和管理员账号。
我倾向于不使用该通用账号，始终使用自己的账号。
不过，那个能让你在不切换账号的情况下匿名审核的插件听起来很有趣。
在版主偏好设置中，您可以向下滚动到“头衔”选项并选择“无”。版主可以选择“无”、“组长”或“普通”。虽然我自己既是管理员也是版主，但在个人偏好中我选择了“无”，因此我的名字后面不会显示任何内容……没有头衔，也没有徽章……什么都没有。如果您愿意，也可以选择“普通”，该选项将会显示。