Interesting, how was the mod team picked? I think it is a good check to have it be separate from the Rust team (assuming it wasn't picked by and answers to the Rust team).
The moderation team was conceived and designed by Manish Goregaokar, an experienced moderator from Stack Overflow and a volunteer for the Servo project. The original roster for the mod team was picked by Manish and the core team, though moving forward the mod team can expand its ranks on its own. Also notice that the moderation team has no formal leader, every member has the same amount of authority. One of their explicit goals is to police the other teams, including the core team, hence the requirement for disjoint membership between the mod team and the core team.
What exactly is the goal of the group? What does it mean that they "police the other teams"? This is just out of pure curiosity, I find the idea of having a mod team for a large, public project interesting but a bit strange.
That seems... less good honestly, but gotta start some where I guess. Friends-network effect should grow weaker with time (or at first big drama blowup).
kibwen|10 years ago
Manishearth|10 years ago
(I also think part of the design of the mod team was done by Aaron, based off of my sketch of a design)
(I'm also not a stack overflow mod, I'm a mod on a couple of stack exchange sites -- though I have observed how stack overflow is moderates)
freditup|10 years ago
MetaCosm|10 years ago