What does a Supervisor on WikiAnswers do?

Answer 1

A Supervisor does many things on WikiAnswers. A Supervisor will hunt for vandalism, and warn those who need to be warned. If necessary, a Supervisor will block someone, either temporarily or permanently, for doing anything against WikiAnswers' rules. That is the main part of a Supervisor job, but they also help other contributors, other supervisors, and make sure no disputes arise to where they have to be taken to a higher level.

There are floating supervisor who do not supervise a specific category. They just float around the site cleaning up questions, blocking vandals, merging questions, asking questions, answering questions, participating in the Supervisors Forum etc. A category supervisor basically does the same thing but they try to focus all of their work in the categories that have been appointed to supervise.

Supervisors have additional Super Powers (eg. protect a question, trash a question which does not add to the value of WA, feature a question etc.) and also have access to the "backstage" of WikiAnswers - the stylebook, their own personal email, and the supervisors' forum. They look over categories of interest or "hover" over each randomly, and are able to feature, protect, merge, trash, update etc. questions they find. They can also warn, block etc. other users who are doing inappropriate spam and damage to WikiAnswers.

Please see the related question: "How do you become a Supervisor on WikiAnswers?"

Supervisors can:

# Monitor activities in the site

# Revert/Remove wrong answers

# Warn users posting answers that do not comply with the website rules

# Block users who keep posting nonsense after repeated warnings

# And more!