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In particular, it appears that community moderators are able to edit the per-community Help Center documents (e.g. this listing for Meta itself) and perhaps add new ones. Yes. Community moder...
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#2: Post edited
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Monica Cellio
·
2024-01-25T02:44:04Z (4 months ago)
- > In particular, it appears that community moderators are able to edit the per-community Help Center documents (e.g. this listing for Meta itself) and perhaps add new ones.
- Yes. Community moderators can edit all help topics except the network-policy ones. A community's Meta category is a good place to work out changes or new content.
- The topics in the Policy column (About the Network, Legal) are editable only by Codidact staff. These topics cover things like the terms of service. Moderators also see a mod-only section that might be similarly restricted but I'm not sure.
- > Why are the "Network FAQ" and "Codidact FAQ" separate documents?
- The network FAQ is suitable for any instance, and is part of the seeded help in the software distribution. The Codidact Foundation FAQ is something we added to this instance to provide more transparency around the folks running this instance. We probably should have used that to *replace* the network FAQ. I might have fat-fingered an update; I'll look into it.
- > If communities indeed set some of their own policies, it doesn't appear that there's any formal procedure for this.
I'm sorry for any confusion we've caused. In general, communities use Meta to determine things like scope, local policies, and so on, and we assumed the same would apply for editing help. We could make it more obvious that communities *can* edit the help, since that's not true on many other platforms. Thank you for raising this.
- > In particular, it appears that community moderators are able to edit the per-community Help Center documents (e.g. this listing for Meta itself) and perhaps add new ones.
- Yes. Community moderators can edit all help topics except the network-policy ones. A community's Meta category is a good place to work out changes or new content.
- The topics in the Policy column (About the Network, Legal) are editable only by Codidact staff. These topics cover things like the terms of service. Moderators also see a mod-only section that might be similarly restricted but I'm not sure.
- > Why are the "Network FAQ" and "Codidact FAQ" separate documents?
- The network FAQ is suitable for any instance, and is part of the seeded help in the software distribution. The Codidact Foundation FAQ is something we added to this instance to provide more transparency around the folks running this instance. We probably should have used that to *replace* the network FAQ. I might have fat-fingered an update; I'll look into it.
- > If communities indeed set some of their own policies, it doesn't appear that there's any formal procedure for this.
- I'm sorry for any confusion we've caused. In general, communities use Meta to determine things like scope, local policies, and so on, and we assumed the same would apply for editing help. We have added a short intro to the help page to make it more obvious that communities *can* edit the help, since that's not true on many other platforms. Thank you for raising this.
#1: Initial revision
by
Monica Cellio
·
2024-01-23T04:15:27Z (4 months ago)
> In particular, it appears that community moderators are able to edit the per-community Help Center documents (e.g. this listing for Meta itself) and perhaps add new ones. Yes. Community moderators can edit all help topics except the network-policy ones. A community's Meta category is a good place to work out changes or new content. The topics in the Policy column (About the Network, Legal) are editable only by Codidact staff. These topics cover things like the terms of service. Moderators also see a mod-only section that might be similarly restricted but I'm not sure. > Why are the "Network FAQ" and "Codidact FAQ" separate documents? The network FAQ is suitable for any instance, and is part of the seeded help in the software distribution. The Codidact Foundation FAQ is something we added to this instance to provide more transparency around the folks running this instance. We probably should have used that to *replace* the network FAQ. I might have fat-fingered an update; I'll look into it. > If communities indeed set some of their own policies, it doesn't appear that there's any formal procedure for this. I'm sorry for any confusion we've caused. In general, communities use Meta to determine things like scope, local policies, and so on, and we assumed the same would apply for editing help. We could make it more obvious that communities *can* edit the help, since that's not true on many other platforms. Thank you for raising this.