The following guide can be used by moderators of any Microsoft forum as a guideline to understand best practices and moderation techniques. Please comment on any article to give us feedback.
Paul Ishak edited Revision 26. Comment: Fixed community code of conduct hyperlink
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 15. Comment: Added "Optimizing Your Profile"
This wiki needs better bread crumbs. If you open one of the topics in this thread in a new tab or window, there's no link to get back to this overview of all the moderation topics. Can the page template be changed to include a link to this page on every topic page?
We have standards for adding links, but for now the standards are manual.
Okay. I added links back to this page to the top and bottom of all the sub-pages. That's generally the best practice.
Nice article, it helped me learned the process of becoming moderator. I was just wondering is there a way a person who became a Moderator for specific forum knows that Microsoft has granted him Moderator permissions ? May be an email alert would be nice letting the person knows that he has been choosen as Moderator for that particular forum.
browsing from other wiki post..Good one..very informative.. Isn't available on somewhere on technet?
Hasham, as a best practice, I notify people when they become Moderators and send them to this resource and the Marking Answers page in particular. So it could be automated, but it kind of needs a personal touch.
Amit, this information is available here. This is TechNet. Did I miss your question? Thanks!
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 17. Comment: Added See Also and tags
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 19. Comment: Added the Forums FAQ link to "See Also"
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 20. Comment: More "See Also" links.
yottun8 edited Revision 21. Comment: Updated link's title. "How to Report..." -> "How to Ban or Report..."
yottun8 edited Revision 22. Comment: Added "Other Languages" section and ja-JP link.
Richard Mueller edited Revision 23. Comment: Added TOC
Karl Mitschke edited Revision 25. Comment: Added links to Terms of Use and Code of Conduct