Mod Powers

Here is an outline of all mod powers and how to use them.

Mod Alerts
- Mod alerts allow you to send an anonymous, dismissible pop-up banner to a user, alerting them of potential future action. This way you can deliver warnings, keep a record for future mod actions, be sure the user sees it, and not have it attached to your name.
- Keep mod alerts information dense and impersonal. Misuse of this system to anonymously attack users will not be tolerated.
- Once a user has dismissed a mod alert, it will no longer show as active on the ban management page.
Bans

Ban Type	What it blocks
`posting`	Commenting, messaging, creating posts, adding answers, poll voting
`marketControl`	Creating, editing, resolving markets, hiding comments, adding/editing answers, poll voting
`trading`	Betting, managrams, liquidity changes, adding answers, boosting markets, poll voting

Ban applications
- For general bad actors: consider all three ban types
- For spam/harassment: Posting ban is usually sufficient
- For market abuse: Market Control ban, possibly with Trading ban
- For financial manipulation: Trading ban
Bans can be issued with varying lengths. If you are banning someone, consider their mod alert/warning and ban history. Repeat offenders should be treated more harshly.
Ban Guidelines
- Mods should only use bans for spam or temporary restrictions. For permanent bans (except obvious spam), escalate it to the admins in Discord.
- Self-promotion by a genuine user does not count as spam unless posted across unrelated markets or in large quantities.
- Mods should only use this for spam.
- Self-promotion by a genuine user does not count as spam unless posted across unrelated markets or in large quantities. Most spam is quite obvious.
- If a user is problematic and breaking Community Guidelines issue a warning. If they continue to escalate then you should contact the Manifold team who will decide on how long a ban should be implemented. As a last resort, feel free to temporarily ban them if someone isn’t available to look at it, but make this clear to the user.
- Always include a reason when banning - the user will see this message as a banner, and it will be kept as a record for future bans. It’s good to be information dense and impersonal, for both the ban recipient and future moderators reading the log.
Hide comment
- This can be done by both the market creator and mods. Creators are allowed more discretion on how to use this. When using this as a mod on others’ markets, you should only use it on content that violates our Comment guidelines
Change closing date
- You may use this if you have unresolved a market and need to extend the closing time
- You may use this to minimize ambiguity, or to better match the close date with the expected resolution date when the creator is banned, unresponsive, or inactive.
For Unrank, unsubsidize, or unlist please refer to Guidance for running a market
Pin comments
- Pin comments which provide essential market context. Encourage the creator to improve their market title or description to minimize doubt about how it will resolve. When comments are adequately reflected in description or title changes, remove the pin.
For when to use the following 4 tools please refer to Resolving/clarifying markets
- Change market description
- Change market title
- Unresolve a market
- Resolve a market
Tagging markets
- Don’t remove market tags unless they are improperly applied, e.g., you may remove “US-Politics” or “Politics” tags from a non-political market.
- You can add new topic tags freely.
Block user
- This is NOT a mod power. Blocking a user is a general action that can be done by any user. Mods can block users who they don’t wish to interact with, however as a mod you should try to use this more sparingly and never as retaliation. As a mod you should expect pushback, and your immediate response should not be to just block them. Users are unable to block mods.