InstructLab Slack Moderation Guide¶
The purpose of this document is both describe how users of the InstructLab's Slack workspace can report abuse in the Slack workspace and to provide space administrators with an easy to use how to guide for channel moderation.
Reporting Abuse¶
Should any community members using the InstructLab Slack workspace feel that they have experienced behavior that violates our project Code of Conduct, they are welcome and encouraged to contact the members of the Code of Conduct Committee for help. Mentioning @cocc will page all members of the committee so that they can assist you.
In the event that you do not receive help within a timely fashion - and we will do our very best to respond right away - you can ask for help from the workspace admins by either joining channel #admin or mentioning @admins.
Moderation Guide¶
Moderation activities can only be performed by users who are designated as workspace administrators.
Workspace Administrators¶
At time of writing, our workspace administrators/moderators are as follows:
- Aakanksha Duggal
- Ali Maredia
- Alina Ryan
- Cara Delia +
- Carol Chen +
- Charlie Doern
- Dan McPherson
- Jaideep Rao
- James Kunstle
- Jason Greene
- Jeremy Eder
- JJ Asghar +
- Joe Sepi +
- Kelly Brown
- Leslie Hawthorn +
- Mo McElaney +
- Máirín Duffy
- Nathan Weinberg
- Oleg Silkin
- Russell Bryant
+ Members of the Code of Conduct Committee
How We Moderate¶
Deleting Inappropriate Comments¶
Upon report of abuse to the Code of Conduct Committee or, alternatively if needed to the workspace administrators due to a coverage gap, the appropriate parties will assess the situation.
The first step will be to remind folks to abide by the project Code of Conduct.
Inappropriate or offensive messages will be deleted.
Deleting a message shall be done at the sole discretion of the Code of Conduct Committee and/or workspace administrators.
How to delete a message¶
Removing Workspace Members¶
Admins should consider first removing the offending person from the channel in which the unacceptable behavior occurred and having a conversation with them as a DM to remind them of their responsibilities to abide by the project code of conduct as part of their participation in the InstructLab community.
If a user is a repeat offender, after being warned, their account can be deactivated by an admin.
Removing someone from a channel¶
- By default, Workspace Owners and Admins can remove people from public channels, and members can remove people from private channels.
- Anyone can be removed from a channel by those with permission.
- All members and guests need to be added back to a private channel to rejoin it, and guests also need to be added back to a public channel to rejoin it.
- It's not possible to remove people from the #announce channel. However, posting in this channel is restricted to workspace administrators by default.