# Moderation Strategies **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Tags:** moderation\ **Created:** [October 24, 2023, 10:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-strategies/283339 "2023-10-24T22:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![anon65426961](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/34f0e0/32.png) [@anon65426961](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon65426961)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 5:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-strategies/283339/7 "2023-10-25T17:53:50Z")
Thanks everyone for these comments. These are some comments I wrote at the official moderation guide page where comments are only temporary so just posting a copy here where we could continue talk: _ **For general moderation strategies I would say there are two main different methods for that: Active vs. Passive moderation.** _ _ **Active moderators actively read new posts, potentially even all posts are being reviewed and read word for word by moderators who will comment in helpful reply advice or in official moderation statements.** _ _ **Passive moderation means moderators are not always actively reading all new posts, but do review flag reports and may reply or respond to those.** _ _ **A challenge I’ve seen is that if official moderators are actively talking with community members as friends/colleagues, then it may become more difficult to maintain professional moderation polices.** _ There are a lot of different categories of strategies for moderation. There are benefits to having consistent active moderation, but there are also reasons why moderation/editing may be better kept more reserved. If posts are being deleted a common courtesy to send the author a copy of what they had published can be helpful, in case they don’t have any other records of what they wrote before posting at a community page. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/moderation-strategies/283339)._