VMware Community Moderators have committed to performing numerous functions, as authorized by the VMware Communities administration team. Often, the member moderators will confer with the VMware Communities team and vice versa, to ensure fair and appropriate decisions.

Role of Community Moderators

1. Keep the community forums and "help" documents clean. This includes:

• - Move misplaced postings to the appropriate Forum.
• - Find and remove threads/topics irrelevant to Virtualization or VMware.
• - Remove duplicate postings.
• - Point participants of a thread covering content already covered in the forum's FAQs to the FAQ applet.
• - Edit new discussion SUBJECT lines to remove any BOLD, ITALICS, or EMOTICON markup that would artificially draw attention to those particular threads. (Our philosophy: all discussion threads are created equal.)

• - Enforcing the COMMUNITY TERMS OF USE, and dealing appropriately with the occasional case of member misconduct. Examples of no-no's in VMware Communities:
  
  • > Moderator bashing or baiting (publicly challenging moderation decisions).
  • > Spam and certain kinds of promotion.
  • > Swearing, profanity.
  • > Inflammatory remarks including personal insults (see Reminder: Conduct on VMware Communities and Moderators for more on flaming). Spirited debates are welcome; flaming will not be tolerated.
  • > Illegal postings such as posting software serial numbers for all to see.
  • > Malicious postings such as linking to content, applications, or utilities containing viruses, trojans, or spyware; linking to or mention of serial number generators.
  • > Monitoring patterns of bad behavior.

2. Take user comments and ensure attention is being paid to critical requests.

3. Help facilitate in technical discussions, and keep FAQ information in the product forums up to date.

Master List of Current Community Moderators

All have the icon next to their names. Additionally, those who are VMware employees display the VMW logo .

• * RDellimmagine (VMware Web Communities team)
• * Badsah (VMware Web Communities team)
• * JohnTroyer (VMware Web Communities team)
• * Corey_R (VMware Web Communities team)
• * jeanchen (VMware Web Communities team)
• * boydd
• * BrianG
• * Dave.Mishchenko
• * dpomeroy
• * esiebert7625
• * jasonboche
• * juchestyle
• * Ken.Cline
• * KevinG
• * kimono
• * kix1979
• * Liz
• * magi
• * masaki
• * Mike_Laverick
• * MR-T
• * oreeh
• * RDPetruska
• * sbeaver
• * Texiwill
• * tom howarth
• * Peter_VM
• * depping