User blog:Sannse

The internet is full of wonderful things that brings people together in ever-changing and positive ways - but it can also be a dangerous place. How do we reconcile these two things? By working to increase the good in the internet, and reduce the bad.

That might sound obvious, but for Fandom that means trying to moderate thousands of communities over several sites, without getting in the way of your freedom to create and build.

One part of this is our Trust and Safety Team. There are four of us. Me, Jenny, Dylan and our fearless leader Tim. We work alongside other staff in keeping Fandom a safe and healthy place to be. We are helped by other members of our Community team, along with other key problem solvers such as the Fandom Support Team (i…

This month is National Bullying Prevention Month and we wanted to acknowledge that with some thoughts on bullying and what to do about it. We will focus on cyberbullying, as we are all online, although in-person bullying is also important and is sometimes combined with cyberbullying

Cyberbullying involves using digital technology to repeatedly attack someone. For example, the bully might send offensive DMs to you or about you. Or they might send floods of nasty text messages, or write offensive discussion posts about you. Even wikis have the potential to be used for bullying - for example by making an offensive new wiki about you, or posting embarrassing pictures. The key element is the intention to hurt you.

Not all unpleasant interactions …

Have you ever actually read a site's Terms of Use? After all, it's a document you "sign" when you make an account on Fandom or most other sites you join. But they are long, and dry, and frankly more than most people want to read.

But it's good to know what you are signing. After all, you might be signing to give the company your first born child. Or to agree the contract will be void if there's a zombie apocalypse (yes those are real examples). One company even offered $1000 to the person who read enough of the document to find the offer! It took four months before anyone did!

So while we definitely recommend that you read the ToU, we have also written a simpler version of the user conduct section to help everyone understand what's required …

Hi everyone,

This is a semi-staff-post. It's not in the staff blog category and won't be advertised anywhere. The idea is just to give a central space to talk about the advisor experiment we are working on at the moment - both for those taking part in the experiment, and those interested in it.

This project is based on a similar project on Wikipedia. The idea is to give new editors a specific person to contact about any problems or questions they have on a wiki. The "apprentices" will be able to choose their advisor, and then can expect to have that person available to them for help and advice.

Advisors are volunteers from the wiki in question, and/or users with global experience who can give guidance on any wiki. They will commit to being av…

This blog is for all you readers out there. You've looked around some of the 300,000 wikis on FANDOM, looked at some News and Stories, found some great reads on the wikis, and maybe even visited Discussions. So what's next for you?

Well, one thing you've probably noticed is the rich community on FANDOM. Each fandom is its own community, and then there is the overall community on Community Central and the other language versions of this wiki.

• 1 Building Your Identity
• 2 Making Your First Contribution
• 3 Discussions, Another Way to Join In.
• 4 Let's Talk!

To join a community, the first thing I would always suggest is to make an account. You can do some things on FANDOM without being logged, including reading, editing, and commenting on articles. But logg…