Appreciation
Today is Community Moderator Appreciation Day, a well-deserved moment of recognition for people who make the web more humane, more thoughtful, more helpful and more useful.
This is a bottomless topic for me, but perhaps the best way to observe it is to share what’s been learned and distilled about creating an environment where good moderators can succeed. Here’s Matt Haughey at last year’s Gel Conference telling the story himself: