WavelyGuidelines
Community Admin Guidelines
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A community is a shared space around a topic, with its own feed and its own members. Whoever creates or administers one looks after it on everyone’s behalf. These guidelines say what creators and admins can do, and what they owe the people in their community. They add to the Community Guidelines, which still apply in full. Communities are coming to Wavely after its first release.
Roles in a community
| Role | Can |
|---|---|
| Creator | Everything an admin can, and promote members to admin or demote admins. The creator is the first admin and cannot be removed from their own community. |
| Admin | Invite people, remove members, remove posts from the community, edit its name, description, and picture, and delete it. |
| Member | Post to the community and take part. Members cannot invite others. |
Your responsibilities
Admins are responsible for keeping their community within the rules and for treating its members fairly. Misusing the role is not allowed, including:
- Allowing the community to be used to break the Community Guidelines.
- Using admin tools to harass, single out, or retaliate against members.
- Describing the community misleadingly, or impersonating another community, brand, or person.
- Exposing what members share in a private community to people outside it.
Moderating your community
- Removing a post takes it out of the community’s feed. It does not delete the post from its author’s profile, where it remains visible under the community’s privacy.
- Removing a member ends their access. For a private community, they need a new invite to return.
- Every action is recorded, with who took it, the same way Wavely’s own moderators’ actions are.
- Your powers stop at the edge of your community. For anything that breaks Wavely’s rules, report it so Wavely’s moderators can act across the whole platform.
Public and private communities
Anyone can see and join a public community. A private community is invite only, and shows non-members only its name, description, and picture, so an invite can be recognized for what it is.
A post in a private community is visible on its author’s profile only to members, so a profile can never be a way around an invite.
Deleting a community
The creator or an admin can delete a community, whatever its size. Deleting removes the community, its membership, its feed, and the posts created inside it. Posts that were shared into the community from elsewhere survive, under their own visibility.
Deletion cannot be undone, so we strongly recommend telling members in advance, so they can keep anything they want.
When the creator leaves
If the creator deletes their account, the community passes to another admin, or to a member if there are no other admins. A community closes only when nobody is left to take it on. One person leaving should not destroy a space other people built.
Wavely’s role
Wavely’s moderators can act in any community. We may remove posts, remove admins, restrict a community, or remove it entirely if it is organized around breaking the Community Guidelines or if its admins repeatedly fail to act on serious violations. How We Enforce Our Rules explains how we decide.