INZAIN Cycling Adventures

Gravel Bike Sweden (GBS) is a Facebook group with +4,000 members. In order for the volume to be as manageable as possible, moderators sift through the posts and base their assessment on this set of regulations.

The subject to which the post relates shall invite discussion, hold one high intellectual level, be very funny, and or downright interesting for an absolute majority of the members of the group.

Examples of posts that are always removed

• Advertising
• Surveys that only benefit the questioner
• Questions about tires that have already been asked 100 times
• Discussions that we already had several times that year
• Questions about other than Gravel Cycling

Examples of topics that are often removed:

• Hope, Irony, rudeness.
• Disrespectful posts
• Buy and sell, they should be on the buy and sell side

Examples of topics that will not be removed:

• Interesting, open discussions and questions about Gravel Cycling
• Route tips and questions
• Questions about equipment
  
  

Commercial Posts

We have a special policy for commercial posts under review.
Those who wish to add such pay for this through a contribution to Doctors Without Borders. The entry must be about goods or services for gravel. The admin group must approve the post. During June, an evaluation will take place.

Q&A

Q: Why has my comment been removed?

A: GBS is not a democratic forum, but a private group that has become popular because we have a special culture here that people like, which the moderators are tasked with preserving. In exceptional cases, this means that we remove posts.

Our guidelines for doing this are these:

Niceness over vulgarity

At GBS we appreciate idiocy and dislike dryness, but don't let this be an excuse to accidentally be vulgar, judgmental, intolerant or exclusionary.

Understanding over rhetoric

At GBS, we all try to interpret benevolently rather than maliciously, and seek mutual learning rather than "winning" a discussion.

Humor over seriousness

At GBS, we are humble in the face of the absurdity of the universe, offer ourselves, and don't think a discussion is complete if you don't have fun while having it. Poop.

Q: Who are you looking for as a moderator?

A: We almost always need more moderators. If you have suggestions for a righteous monkey that would be suitable, then send the tip in a PM to a moderator.

A moderator is expected to spend at least 45 minutes a week. In practice, your task is to approve/reject posts according to the above guidelines and your own good taste, and to keep the forum tidy. Most of the time this just means being straight and nice and nice and very rarely you actually need to use any of your actual powers as a moderator.

Moderators are not paid.

We are looking for someone who is a good balance between:

• Humorous and serious, with an emphasis on humorous
• Pragmatic and idealistic, with an emphasis on pragmatic
• Doing the right thing and agreeing, with an emphasis on agreeing
• Being nice and honest, with an emphasis on nice
• To govern and to mediate, with an emphasis on mediating

We don't quota, but it's damn meritorious if you're not a white man in your 30s and 40s who rides a specialized. 🙂