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Question Curators

Metaculus Question Curators are committed members of the community who volunteer to help the platform run smoothly. We greatly appreciate their time and talents, and we hope you’ll do the same!

The main responsibilities of Question Curators include:

  1. Providing constructive feedback on user-submitted questions, including asking for revisions when necessary.
  2. Accepting community-suggested questions that are ready to go live for forecasting.
  3. Mediating discussions about question resolutions.
  4. Answering users’ questions about how the platform works, when they arise.

Additionally, Question Curators can help draw extra attention to bugs, feature requests, or other issues that affect the platform. Question Curators are appointed democratically, by way of election. If you’d like to register interest in becoming a Question Curator, please do so by commenting on a recent Question Curator election post, and we’ll reach out to you before the next election takes place.

If something needs the attention of Question Curators they can be notified using the @moderators - update? tag.

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Previously the Metaculus Question Curators were known as Community Moderators. We have since changed their title from Moderator to Curator, to reflect the fact that their primary function is to help the community write and publish interesting and high-quality forecasting questions. We are grateful that the Metaculus community exemplifies the guidelines we set forth, so that all comments which violate our moderation rules are handled by Metaculus Admins. If you see a comment that violates our rules please report it!

Permissions​

Users who are elected to become Question Curators receive special permissions and powers to allow them to perform their duties on the site. In some cases we also give Curator powers to project partners to facilitate upcoming and existing projects.

The permissions and limitations that Curators have are as follows:

  • The ability to see and edit questions in the pending queue
  • The ability to set pending questions to upcoming or defer them
  • The ability to edit upcoming questions and to set upcoming questions back to pending
  • Access to private and upcoming projects, as needed
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Curators are not able to resolve questions. Only Admins can resolve questions.