Moderator Manual:Common Issues
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| Moderator Manual: | Main Page
Guidelines and Disclaimer - Moderating Freecycle - Required files - Admins and Notices - Pet Moderator Handbook |
Glossary |
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| Contacts | GOA directory : Freecycle Modsquads : Contact moderators |
The admins/notices are one-time notes that you might send out on occasion to the whole group as a specific situation arises.
| ADMIN - Crossposting | Cross-posting is sending your Offer or Wanted request to more than one group at a time. Why it is not wanted on Freecycle. |
| ADMIN - Description of Items | When posting your items to the list, make sure that the item offered is accurately described. |
| ADMIN - Too Hot... Be Nice | In heat waves, tempers may be raised - Be nice please |
| ADMIN - Holiday Requests | Holidays are approaching, how to deal with excess WANTED posts and charity Requests |
| ADMIN - Proof that animals end up in landfills | |
| ADMIN - How Messages Are Moderated | A Message on How We Moderate Messages |
| ADMIN - New Group Announcements | Advertise a new group in the area (Group split).. |
| ADMIN - No shows | Several admins regarding people not showing up when arranged. |
| ADMIN: Not getting what you Wanted? | |
| ADMIN - Purple Octopus | What Freecycle is / is not about |
| ADMIN - Using Received vs. Taken in Subject Lines | Using Received vs. Taken in Subject lines |
| ADMIN - Resellers | Local policy dictates whether or not resellers are permitted to post to individual Freecycle(TM) lists. This ADMIN is provided as a guideline for resellers in the event this optional policy is adopted. |
| ADMIN - Phone Numbers and Addresses | Freecycle(TM) discourages phone numbers and addresses in message posts. It is simply a matter of safety. |
| ADMIN - Sob Stories | There is no requirement listed that states a poster has to justify any requests made, and sometimes it just needs to be stated that some posts are over the top. |
| ADMIN - Distribution of Software, CDs, DVDs, et al | Software and other forms of media fall under Copyright agreements. This message serves to clarify this group's stance on the distribution of software, CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, recorded music, taped media and other printed materials via Freecycle(TM). |
| ADMIN - When Members Solicit Sales in Response to a WANTED Post | Soliciting sales is not permitted on Freecycle(TM) lists. This ADMIN is provided to address the group as a whole when members are attempting to solicit sales from other members who have requested items as a WANTED on local groups. |
| ADMIN - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle | The 3 R's - Everyone Can Offer Up Something |
| ADMIN - Freecycle and Tickets, Coupons, etc | The official XXXX Freecycle policy on coupons, tickets, etc is that they can be OFFERED, but not asked for. |
| ADMIN - To Post or Not to Post... That is the Question | This makes it quite easy to pick any item and run it through a series of questions that will give you a definitive answer on whether or not it meets guidelines according to Freecycle (International) criteria. |
