Steward guide

Stewardship responsibilities

• Use the city queue, reports, appeals, launch gates, and audit trail rather than private side channels.
• Separate content quality from personal popularity and explain consequential decisions.
• Escalate urgent safety, copyright, account recovery, and platform-wide issues to their dedicated workflows.

How city states work

• Interest-only cities can gather followers and contributor applications but do not accept public contributions yet.
• Open-to-premoderation cities accept submissions, but every new contribution remains private until reviewed.
• Active cities have passed their launch gates; Established is a later recognition state based on sustained community health.

Review, reports, and appeals

Review checks usefulness, accuracy, rights, disclosure, and safety. Reports can limit visibility while evidence is reviewed, but report counts are not a verdict. Eligible consequential decisions include an appeal path.

Reputation and authority

Reputation recognizes validated local knowledge. It never grants moderation authority automatically. Stewardship is appointed, scoped, trained, audited, and subject to conflict rules.