Hand over moderation as a set of responsibilities, not a password
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Transfer the work, permissions and unresolved cases through authorised role changes and a clear acceptance check.
Maintain
Leave a community someone else can run.
Maintain references, hand over responsibilities and review real outcomes.
Maintain references, hand over responsibilities and review real outcomes.
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Keep a community ownership register without storing secrets
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Record who is responsible and how authorised recovery works; never turn an ownership sheet into a password collection.
Plan moderator absence cover that can actually be used
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A named backup needs the right task instructions and permissions before the main host is unavailable.
Give moderators a clear route for problems they should not decide alone
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Separate routine community housekeeping from decisions requiring an owner, provider or appropriate specialist.
Maintain the community’s essential references after the move
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Assign an owner and review trigger to the few references members depend on most.
Write an exit plan before the next platform decision becomes urgent
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Know what you can retrieve, what you may retain and what requires provider help before you need to leave.
Review a community transition against the promises you actually made
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Evaluate member tasks, unresolved cases and ongoing workload separately from the platform’s activity counters.
Estimate a member-support workload without pretending to predict it
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Use explicit assumptions to explore support capacity; the result is arithmetic, not a forecast of member behaviour.
Use an aggregate transition board without exposing member identities
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Track mutually exclusive observed stages and unresolved work; matching totals do not prove successful participation.