Important limitations

Give moderators a clear route for problems they should not decide alone

Last materially reviewed 2026-09-28

Quick answerSeparate routine community housekeeping from decisions requiring an owner, provider or appropriate specialist.
Likely to work well when

✓ Established interest groups

✓ Volunteer community teams

✓ Member access and moderator handovers

Important limitations

— Launching a first creator offer

— Course production or LMS migrations

— Agency software resale

— Guaranteed community growth

What to know

Define the categories locally

Write which routine actions a moderator may take and which concerns must be escalated. Use the community’s actual rules and provider terms. Do not make a volunteer improvise legal, medical or safeguarding advice from a generic software guide. If a situation involves immediate danger, the relevant emergency or specialist route takes priority over ordinary community administration.

What to know

Limit the information transferred

Send only the context required to the authorised recipient. Avoid copying sensitive reports into broad committee chats or public transition boards. Preserve necessary evidence according to applicable obligations and the provider’s process. This publication does not determine a legal retention period or instruct moderators to conduct investigations beyond their role.

What to know

Make ownership of the next step visible

Record who received the escalation, what acknowledgement was observed and what remains unresolved. Forwarding a message is not proof that the recipient accepted responsibility or resolved the case. Explain the member-facing next step without promising confidentiality or an outcome that the actual process cannot guarantee.

What to know

A fictional boundary

A moderator receives a complaint about access and also an allegation requiring an owner’s review. The access question follows the ordinary support route; the allegation is handled separately through the appropriate restricted process. The moderator does not combine both into a public troubleshooting post. Distinct routes help preserve privacy and prevent a routine software fix from being misrepresented as resolution of the broader concern.

What to know

Before you close this task

State the distinction between acknowledging a report and accepting responsibility for its resolution. If no appropriate recipient has accepted the next step, retain the issue as unresolved and follow the community’s legitimate escalation process. Avoid reassuring language that promises investigation, confidentiality or enforcement beyond what the responsible organisation can actually provide.

Source boundary

Where the safety evidence stops

This guide draws on Mighty Networks administration, Mighty privacy policy, Mighty terms of use. Merchant-controlled records describe the provider’s own capabilities, terms or standards; they do not independently validate those claims. These records do not establish independent confirmation of the product claims.

Verify any current price, plan limit, label direction, compatibility rule, or commercial term that would materially change the decision. The dated source ledger shows the underlying records so this conclusion can be checked and updated.

Sources used for this page

These records support the facts and comparisons above. Merchant-controlled records are labelled so you can separate product claims from independent evidence.

  1. Mighty Networks administration — Merchant documentation · mightynetworks.com · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-09-28
  2. Mighty privacy policy — Merchant documentation · mightynetworks.com · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-09-28
  3. Mighty terms of use — Merchant documentation · mightynetworks.com · Merchant-controlled · checked 2026-09-28