setup geonetwork forum subcategories

[jive]

With #3235 completed it ends with the following promise:

The descriptions and logos will be handled by @jive

With that in mind I need a ticket to capture decisions and requests made during the setup.

• I would like the community to volunteer a moderator for their subcategories
• This is especially important for the language specific subcategories
• Check if there is any community to edit subcategories description

This ticket will stay open until geonetwork folks are settled in and happy.

[juanluisrp]

I would like to propose myself as moderator for the geonetwork-user-es category.

[Oguyot]

Hi, I would like to volunteer for moderator of:

• GeoNetwork Users (FR) category: ​https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/geonetwork/user-fr
• GeoNetwork UI category: ​https://discourse.osgeo.org/c/geonetwork/ui

Thank you!

Olivia

[jive]

Thanks Olivia! I found out that moderation applies to the whole website; and I should check if you are okay with that?

I am afraid I cannot offer two much guidance as we are still learning discourse.

One thing I like is that the "trust" system somewhat manages drive by spam. But I do not quite understand the moderation system yet. I think people can flag bad content and you as a moderator get a message.

Giving you more access - let me know how it works.

[Oguyot]

Thanks! Well I guess I asked for it so yes, I'm okay with being moderator :) I think I still can't edit the names of the category above though.

What does "leader" mean by the way?

[robe]

Replying to jive:

Thanks Olivia! I found out that moderation applies to the whole website; and I should check if you are okay with that?

I am afraid I cannot offer two much guidance as we are still learning discourse.

One thing I like is that the "trust" system somewhat manages drive by spam. But I do not quite understand the moderation system yet. I think people can flag bad content and you as a moderator get a message.

Giving you more access "moderator" and marking you as "leader" in case anyone questions your authority. Let me know how it works.

It looks like recent changes in discourse you can have categories be moderated by specific groups.

To do so you need to create a special group for moderating a category or set of categories, and then designate that as moderator for those categories in section:

In addition to staff, content in this category can also be reviewed by:

The upcoming version will allow designating multiple groups.

I'm thinking just having one group like Geonetwork-moderators would suffice that we will designate as moderators for each and every group. I don't think a moderator though can change category names, they can only delete posts, allow posts that have been left back because of some violation to go thru.