Many Facebook Group administrators are experiencing growth. Without proper moderation, a community can easily slip into becoming toxic. Here are some tips for avoiding common mistakes. I have been ...

Community moderators are typically in charge of overseeing online communities. This could be on forums, Facebook, Reddit ...

If you were starting a new social media platform—one that tried to balance civil behavior with strong engagement—and were looking for an example to emulate, Chris Vargo has an unexpected one to offer.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Remember Digg? It started in 2004, as an experiment to crowdsource the Web—to “digg” something was to upvote it—and ...

Beginning on September 25, a moderation team at Valve “will start reviewing reported discussion posts in all game hubs on Steam.” Developers can opt out of this universal system if they like, but ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and other services has announced it will discontinue its third-party factchecking programmes, starting in the US. Journalists and anti-hate ...

We’re thinking about creating something of a community council - a group of users who help moderate the site and encourage quality discussion. They’d also act as a community-driven conduit between The ...

"Intense" and "visceral": that's how Patrick Harris, now lead game designer at Behaviour Interactive, described what harassment feels like in virtual reality. Back in 2016, Harris was design director ...

Bluesky, the decentralized social network and frontrunner alternative to Twitter, has been hailed as a wonderland of funny posts and good vibes. But a moderation policy change that followed a death ...

I'm sure the AVC community has noticed a bit more comment spam slipping in. That's for a number of reasons. As the number of comments rises across multiple threads every day, it takes me longer to get ...