Thanks everyone for your feedback and input in this topic.
As a result, the @forums-governance team came up with five improvements to the initial proposal:
- In order to reduce the voting burden, polls to validate proposed moderators will only take place during the initial category creation or during later additions/removals of moderators when the evaluation of mods requirements fulfillment turn not to be obvious.
- The time for the initial discussion and voting will take 5 days each, but always having weekend days in the middle to optimize for everyone’s available time.
- Once a year, a reminder to communities will be sent to open a conversation to check on their moderator group health: Do you need new mods, does someone want/need to step-out because is no longer fulfilling the requirements?
- A feedback mechanism will be established to allow individuals to flag to the @forum-governance any issues with a moderator at any given time. Their fulfillment of the requirements will be evaluated.
- New mods can be suggested by the communities at any given time, as long as they fulfill the requirements and accept the role.
Wording has been changed in the original post to reflect these changes.
Again, as a reminder, this is a version 1 that will be tested starting now, and the process will be evolved/updated as its being used and what works and doesn’t work can be analyzed.
Thanks again for helping shape this process!