Microvolunteering

This is a work in progress; the Discourse threads from its development are listed below.

Implemented in November 2020, the idea is to offer members the opportunity to do small moderating tasks on their community, to help us out but mainly to stimulate interest in volunteering for Freegle.

These opportunities are made available automatically via the website, so teams can choose to have the facility on their community or not. The reviews/work the microvolunteers do will appear in ModTools for moderator review.

Message threads:

• November 2020 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/microvolunteering-first-steps/2423
• November 2020 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/microvolunteering-similar-items/2476
• November 2020 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/microvolunteering-reviewing-approved-posts/2477
• November 2020 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/turning-microvolunteering-on-off/2486
• November 2020 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/microvolunteering-some-modtools-changes/2501
• December 2020 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/microvolunteering-sharing-posts-on-facebook/2520
• December 2020 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/microvolunteering-photo-rotation/2528
• April 2021 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/micro-moderation/3252/9 - explanation of how it works, plus some thoughts of how things might develop
• April 2021 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/what-are-the-levels-of-volunteering/3215/29 - explanation of how microvolunteering can develop through stages, so that volunteers have solid data to base the possibility of contacting a member to become a moderator
• December 2021 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/microvolunteering-seeing-what-people-have-done-v2/4404
• March 2021 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/micro-volunteering/3016/ - shows how to turn microvolunteering on for a member
• November 2024 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/microvolunteering-and-notifications/8078 - adding a notification pop up for microvolunteers
• August 2025 - https://discourse.ilovefreegle.org/t/how-does-someone-become-a-micro-volunteer/8836

The levels of moderating are:

• Basic - they said yes when asked. Review photos, similar word pairing, approved messages.
• Moderate - the above, plus review of pending messages.
• Advanced - currently (April 2021) the same as Moderate.
• Declined - they said no.
• Disabled - a mod said they couldn't do it.

Links:

• Recruiting, Training and Retaining