At what point do you ask for moderation help for a Facebook group you created?

Congratulations on creating a popular and successful group.

I don’t have relevant experience, but I’m thinking you could do a lot worse than model your rules and policies on Fluther’s. Let people know what those are (of course without whacking them over the head). Then I’d say find someone you trust who is willing to help you moderate according to those guidelines.

It would be great if one of the Fluther mods could offer you a little guidance too, since they do such a terrific job of taking care of us here.

^Thank you!

A former jelly has a very successful page about dogs, I’ll PM you.

I have a similar art page. Post a question asking for volunteer moderators, choose who you like based on what you need among those with raised hands. Just that simple.

I explicitly stated the rules and what would lead to joiners being removed. I don’t have time to remind them to read the rules. I just remove them when they don’t follow. Takes time to manage a group. Precious time.

Not sure if making someone an admin these days gives them the power to block the group’s creator from the group. Seems something like this happened years ago with a group that I was in. There was a power play due to found success of the group gathering thousands of members.

Facebook gives you the abilitiy to see people who have blocked you from seeing them. When you look at members of the group, it will be clear if anybody blocked you. For me, if anybody blocks me (I run a few groups), I delete them right away. The nerve of them!

Facebook also gives you moderator alerts, so you can put in words that will alert you to the post, such as “Biden” “Trump” etc. You can also put questions for new people to join, that they have to answer, such as “do you understand the rules” and stuff like that, and that will let people know that you mean business.

The former Jelly has a group, not a page, and she has a lot of people in the group.

It sounds like your group is quite peaceful, @Jonsblond.

If you bring other people on to help, you’ll be the “owner” of the group and they’ll be admins, so no worries for you about them taking over. You’ll always have the ultimate control as the owner of the group.

I choose a second administrator as soon as possible in case I die. I’m totally serious.

I’ve had two occasion where the creator/administrator of a Facebook group I was in died, and then nothing could be done. You can’t delete the group, you can’t mod, you can’t let new members in if only the admin was able to approve members.

I ask someone in the group early on who I think I can trust, or I ask a friend not really related to the group who I know I can trust and they don’t mind helping.

As far as just adding moderators, I haven’t done that, but I think it’s a good idea if you start to get some spam.

Admins have full power just like the creator. Mods have limits to what they can do.

I admin two groups. I would ask for help if the quality of the page lessens, or if spammers start posting, etc…

But it’s always best to have 2–3 in case you’re out of town or something.

My group has over 5,000 members. I would not even think about having a mod or admin other than me.