Guidelines / Agreement for volunteer moderators

I'm bringing on some volunteer moderators - any contract necessary?

[lorenzinho2]

Hi everyone,

I'm about to bring on a couple of volunteer moderators / content managers. Is there any contractual or informal guidelines that I should put together? I have a handle on the work responsibilities - what I am interested in is the legal aspect. Do I need to specify that the moderators can do as much or as little as they can fit in? That they are not liable for any trouble the Web site might get into? Should I formally state that no employment relationship exists?

Does anyone have experience with this? Thanks in advance.

[lorenzinho2]

Anyone have thoughts on this?

[Webwork]

I suggest you search - deeply - into this site for answers, or at least guidance. It's here. If I had links I'd give them to you. Sorry but I don't have the time to do the research for you.

[lorenzinho2]

Webwork, I wasn't asking you to do the research for me :) You sound very busy. I was asking if anyone had experience bringing on volunteer content managers. I'll dig around some more...

[MatthewHSE]

We've worked with volunteer content authors, which sounds fairly similar to what you're asking about. We normally require that participating individuals agree to a short, simple "contract."

Not to be taken as legal advice, however!

[henry0]

I co managed for a while a very nice pc tech board
mods were selected among the site anchors

review the following (stolen from here!)

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