Team Wikis:Do's and Don'ts for Team Members

Please defer to your GOA's decisions on all matters regarding your group.
Please use your Group Admin privileges for work related to your position. Please do not use it to make notes on your own group without permission from GOA or HUB Coordinators or Deron.
Please use your Freecycle.org ID associated with TFN only for official work related to your team. We ask that you not moderate your own or neighboring groups with an official ID.

Please understand and follow all aspects of the Mod Manual.
We have a "one hat" rule, where we ask that you be a member of one team at a time. We welcome you to try out other teams if you are interested in changing things up. Please see your current Team Leader or Coordinator to assist you with the change.
Mods on the same group may not be on the same leadership team. Exceptions can be made for existing team members
At the Leadership level, Freecycle.org needs all team members to be committed to our mission of keeping usable items out of landfills. Leadership team members are asked not to support groups which misuse the Freecycle name or use a confusing variant of "Freecycle" because these groups are competing with us for members and diluting our mission. In addition, any unaffiliated group that uses the name Freecycle or our logo is in violation of the Freecycle trademark. When you became a moderator, the only requirement was that you not mod these groups. Being a member of a Leadership Team requires more commitment. We ask that you relinquish your membership in these groups.

As members of leadership teams we have ourselves modded on FIOD and leadership groups to avoid "oops" moments.
Report all tech issues to your team leader/coordinator instead of FIOD. Your TL/Coord may have the answer already, and if not, will make sure the issue is dealt with quickly and efficiently and given the priority that teams deserve. Click here for more information about the tech issue reporting process for team members.
Please do not use your team member title in your signature line in posting to leadership groups like FIOD and FLC so that it is not misconstrued that you are speaking on behalf of your team.
And, while it may go without saying, please use care not to divulge internal team correspondence or privileged information on FIOD/FLC etc. which might cause confusion (or accidentally reveal spam control approaches or other internal info that might work against the mods/groups in the long run).

Do use your Freecycle.org email address for official TFN business and not for personal reasons.
Please use your personal email on your team group so that we know to whom it belongs.
Please do not forward your email to another account: use webmail.freecycle.org, Thunderbird or Outlook if you have more than one account.
Please help keep our mail servers working at optimum speed by logging out when you are done reading your mail and filing emails as soon as you are finished with them.

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