If your community is a part of a large project or run by a group of people, you may want to add additional moderators (or an additional owner) to share moderation responsibilities in your community. Each community can have up to 10 moderators and 2 owners who have the ability to accept and reject submitted interviews and members. You can find more information on the roles of moderators and owners in a community in the Help Center article below.
What is the difference between a member, a moderator, and an owner in a community?
You can add additional moderators and owners to your community at any time.
Promoting members to moderators
Demoting moderators to members
Promoting moderators to owners
Promoting members to moderators
Once an individual has become a member of a community, an owner can promote them to become a moderator of the community. You can find information on how to join a community on archive.storycorps.org in the Help Center article below.
How do I join and leave a community?
To promote a member to a moderator in a community:
- Log into the archive.storycorps.org profile that owns or moderates the community you want to add a moderator to.
- Select Communities on your profile page and then select the community you want to add a moderator to.
- Take a look at your list of members; you’ll find it on the right-hand side of the screen underneath your question lists.
- Members with a red circle around their profile picture are currently moderators.
- Select the gear icon beside the member’s name.
- Select Promote to Moderator from the drop down menu.
- You’re done! This new moderator will now be able to accept and reject members and interviews, edit and create question lists, and help you moderate the community!
Demoting moderators to members
If you need to remove moderation responsibilities from a member for any reason, owners can also demote a moderator back to a member.
To demote a moderator to a member in a community
- Log into the archive.storycorps.org profile associated with the community you want to remove a moderator from.
- Select Communities on your profile page and then select the community you want to add a moderator to.
- Take a look at your list of members; you’ll find it on the right-hand side of the screen underneath your question lists.
- Members with a red circle around their profile picture are currently moderators.
- Select the gear icon beside the moderator’s name.
- Select Demote to Member from the drop down menu.
- You’re done! The former moderator will now be a regular member
Please Note: Demoting a moderator to a member does not remove them from a community.
Promoting moderators to owners
You can also promote a moderator in your community to an owner. Each community is limited to a maximum of two owners.
To promote a moderator to a owner in a community:
- Log into the archive.storycorps.org profile associated with the community you want to add an additional owner to.
- Select Communities on your profile page and then select the community you want to add a moderator to.
- Take a look at your list of members; you’ll find it on the right-hand side of the screen underneath your question lists.
- Members with a red circle around their profile picture are currently moderators.
- Select the gear icon beside the moderator’s name.
- Select Promote to Owner.
- Please note: Once a moderator has been promoted to an owner in a community, there is no way to remove ownership permissions from the account unless they leave the community
- You’re done! This new moderator will now be able to accept/reject members and interviews, edit/create question lists, and help you moderate the community!