To make your Ning Network successful, it’s important that members feel comfortable expressing their opinions and sharing photos, videos, and anything else you might ask them to contribute. You can make sure your members are comfortable by moderating your Ning Network.
It’s not hard to moderate your Ning Network, but it’s worth putting a bit of thought into it and checking in frequently. Don’t spend too much time focusing on the negatives — the best way to build a positive environment is to stay positive, encourage your members to participate, and react quickly when something goes wrong. Moderating your Ning Network — and doing it right — is key to building a positive reputation.
Active and successful Ning Networks don’t turn on a lot of moderation at launch. This allows people to instantly join and get the gratification of immediately seeing their photos, videos and other content added to the Ning Network. This encourages new members to stay involved.
We recommend a reactive approach to moderating. The best way to moderate your Ning Network at the beginning is to simply keep an eye on the members that are joining and the content they’re adding, especially profile comments and photos. You can immediately delete any item on your Ning Network that is inappropriate or off-topic by clicking the ‘x’ next to that piece of content.
You can always suspend individual troublemakers. If you find that one member in particular is causing problems or breaking your community guidelines, you can instantly ban him or her from your Ning Network. Suspending a member can remove all of the content he or she has added to your Ning Network, including profile comments, forum threads, photos, and videos.
Members have built-in moderation controls too. Members have their own built-in privacy and moderation settings, so they can control (and delete) the comments on their profile pages, photos, videos, and blogs. Members can also contact you via the “Report an issue” link at the bottom of every page on your Ning Network. Most Network Creators find that members are extremely quick to react to inappropriate content and report it as soon as they see it.
As your Ning Network grows in size and activity, you may find that you want a bit more control over your members and the content that is being added.
You can always add moderation controls as your Ning Network grows, although we recommend turning on only moderation only for the specific features where you are running into difficulties. For example, if you’ve seen members joining to promote external services or products that don’t belong on your Ning Network, you may want to turn on member moderation. Use these moderation controls sparingly, however, if you want to allow your Ning Network to continue to grow.
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