Please suggest how I can minimize dependence on volunteer moderators while still maintaining the quality of posts submitted to a Simple:Press community forum.
In the community forums, sometimes the loudest (longest) voices are the least desired. Too much noise and not enough signal makes for poor forum membership growth.
At present, each forum has its own volunteer moderators user group, so that individual moderators do not have moderator access to all forums. The idea here is to limit each volunteer moderator’s scope of work to only one or two forums and to limit the collateral damage if a volunteer moderator’s account is compromised.
Volunteers can be hard to find and easy to lose, so I’d like to allow community members to assist the volunteer moderators in maintaining the quality of posts. Something along the lines of an upvote/downvote capability would be a good start. I read the support topics at https://simple-press.com/support-forum/sp5-plugin-topics/advanced-rating-plug-in/ and https://simple-press.com/support-forum/pre-membership-queries/can-simplepress-create-a-stack-overflow-type-site/.
Have there been any new developments along this line? Please let me know how I might best implement any available Simple:Press features and plugins to accomplish my objective.
Thanks.
