SpiderMan
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What is your favorite musical instrument?
What is your favorite animal?
What is your favorite server?
What is your favorite color?
What is your favorite lil jon song?
What was your most memorable death on the pvp server?
-gsand
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I have updated the list based on the pm's I've received and checking I've done.
-gsand
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Believe you've misinterpreted Diznatch's question. Diz was asking what staff members use for a general criteria, which schererererer went over briefly- not what you've guessed at through the MC/MCP wall.
Or is this finally an answer to MrLoud's question, what your own criteria for the initial list you posted was?
ah, yes, it was the latter.
In regards to the former, the criteria that staff members use to determine if moderators aren't inactive isn't publicized to the community, unfortunately.
-gsand
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I am interested in what criteria staff uses for determining inactivity. Is it solely based on how long since last absolute login? Activity in Modchat-private? Time since last modreq done? Time since last actively played?
Since default ranked players are unable to view modchat-private, the criteria is based solely on in game server and forum participation since most (95%) interactions happen in game or on the forum.
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If I recall correctly, it's a combination of activity on servers, subreddit, and forum (with emphasis on the servers). Some have tallied modreqs in the past, but that doesn't always give a good idea of activity. Sometimes life gets a little busy and a mod doesn't have as much time to play on the servers, but they still check the forums and handle their ban appeals as they come up. Taking away mod powers in this case (which is what the inactive moderator list denotes) would create more work for everyone involved.
As far back as I can remember, the policy on staff inactivity has been fairly loose - over the past couple of years I've actually seen more tightening on this, with admins going down the list of moderators, cross-referencing server logins/chat and modreqs, and contacting potentially inactive people to try to make sure they don't demod someone mistakenly (and a long-time mod had still gotten upset about being moved to the inactive list after this check). In the past it was practically enough that someone merely idled on irc, with the philosophy that it's more prudent to have an extra hand with limited or minimal activity than to remove someone trusted with moderator powers, as long as they haven't vanished for months without a trace. The primary downside to having inactive yet still empowered moderators is a loss of perspective on the need for new mods, and this is easily filled by player reports - the idea of unfairness or undeserved mod status is minor by comparison, and thus the barrier for declaring inactivity should be fairly high.
IMO, Inactive Mods = More work for Active Mods.
The barrier for declaring inactivity should be the lack of activity on the forums and in game within a reasonable time period.
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Woah man, I've missed every single one.
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So lets get back on track, who else should be marked as (Inactive)?
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Right, I was just wondering how you came to the conclusion that someone was inactive because there are a few mods, like Ozomahtlii and cab417 who were in game less than a week ago.
Re: Ozomahtlii
I think I was there when he logged in.
It was for a few seconds, though.
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Are they both generally active to moderate though?
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So you just looked at the name and decided they were inactive? I'm only asking because there are some people on your list that are active that you list as inactive and others who have not been seen in months that you did not list as inactive.
The ones marked as (Inactive) are the ones I have marked as inactive.
As stated before, I am only marking the ones that I am aware of. Any additions are welcome.
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I created a list of mods to ask about their activity a little over a week ago, and I have been working on contacting them. I was actually working on a post for modchat about this.
Would you mind if I asked how you decided who was inactive?
I determined they were inactive by the fact that they were inactive.
I am only aware of the s moderator inactivity, any others, I have no idea.
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Correct. Players have the option of choosing "upvote" or "downvote", indicated by the different color arrows. Red is usually associated as negative, likewise it is the "downvote" option. Vice versa for "upvote".
Erm... wat.
probably read it wrong.
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Hi,
I think inactive moderators should be moved to the inactive moderators list.
I am only aware of s moderators, so the list may be incomplete.
-gsand
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Moderator List
Inactive Moderators are listed as (Inactive)
Mostly Active & Active Moderators are labeled lime green!
Special Cases are labeled hunter green!
Unlabeled names are unknown.
Please let me know if there are others who should be marked as inactive so I can add them to the list.
Since the /seen command is only disabled on pve, I've used this site to determine which pve moderators are inactive.
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AlLnAtuRalX(Inactive)
betajippity
Bestor (Inactive)
bhrossman
BillThePurpleGuy (Inactive[According to EeeHee200])
Boredeth
btree (Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
buchanman(Inactive)
cab417(Inactive)
CaptainViridian(Needs to change the name to his current account)
cmchappell(Inactive)
CROCKODUCK
dan1son(Inactive)
djt832
Darkskynet(Honorary Mod)
Diamond_Lover123
dizney07
emptyafternoon(Inactive)
Eustis(Inactive)
fazaden
forty_two(Rarely Active on IRC, Completely Inactive Ingame[According to Diznatch52])
gdavison
GuyJones(Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
IDANUB(Inactive)
jchance
joshuaherman
JudgeDread
katiewills
Kisa_Gitana(Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
Kohlse(Inactive)
LadyRavenOwl
MaidenGenevive(Inactive)
Magnyus(Inactive[Reason: Military])
Malvagio87(Inactive[According to Malvagio87])
MasterCommaThe
mattgorecki(Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
meno123
Merc_Rick(Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
Morkrash(Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
Mrgauthier34(Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
mschmidt02(Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
muldoonaz(Honorary Mod)
Mumberthrax(Inactive)
nealsmith
NEVAstop
nickeox
Ooer(Inactive)
Ozomahtlii(Inactive)
palmeirl(Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
PolarTux(Inactive)
razgrizMC(Inactive)
Rcub3161(Inactive)
sansapants
Sapphric
schererererer
smdavis93
Socarch26
Speializedowns (Inactive)
SwitchViewz
TheDonVito17(Inactive[According to TornadoHorse])
TheKingDuff
thelethalkind
TheRandomnatrix
TornadoHorse
Trooprm32
Vortex_Oxide
WayneByNumbers
Willravel
WondrLand
kiwi99
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I'll admit I've made a few people beg, but the steps I listed is not begging. It is a chance to prove they are capable of following directions.
What circumstances caused them to beg?
What is the point of proving that they are capable of following orders? Is it necessary.
If you can't follow the rules, then you can't play here
Of course not, but that is not what is being discussed here.
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As someone who has never been banned or noted, I'm interested in some change as well.
Me too, as someone who has never been banned*, I would also like to see some change. as well.
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I'll admit I've made a few people beg, but the steps I listed is not begging. It is a chance to prove they are capable of following directions.
What circumstances caused them to beg?
What is the point of proving that they are capable of following orders? Is it necessary.
If you can't follow the rules, then you can't play here
Of course not, but that is not what is being discussed here.
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I'll admit I've made a few people beg, but the steps I listed is not begging. It is a chance to prove they are capable of following directions.
What circumstances caused them to beg?
What is the point of proving that they are capable of following orders? Is it necessary.
If you can't follow the rules, then you can't play here
Of course not, but that is not what is being discussed here.
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Your wording seems harsh, but I'm not really seeing this as a counter-argument.
I don't understand how it could have possibly been seen in a negative fashion, it's just a description of the process.
Many of my ban appeals, I required the player to go quote the rule they broke. This required them to not only read the rules, but follow a set of directions given to them to be unbanned.
Are all those steps completely necessary, they all seem to have the person to resort to begging, and once they've begged enough, they'll be unbanned. That doesn't seem like an efficient process.
Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance_and_submission
So, is it wrong for people to have to follow the rules to play here?
Of course not, but that is not what is being discussed here.
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I don't. I feel part of the punishment is having to make the ban appeal, having to admit your wrongdoing. If we just set ban lengths that automatically expire, I don't think that causes people to change their ways. Heck, many people who do go through the process refuse to change their ways, but many others do.
It wont cause people to "change their ways". At most, it's a process to prove submission.
But yeah, most of those bans were from the time when nerd.nu was one of very few servers, but those days are long gone.
If you look at the banning systems for most modern servers, they all lean to the side of tempbans for most things.
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Have y'all really given it a chance? I mean I'm beating all of y'all (except dizney) in play time and i'm "not even an s player" ;)
Just chiming in with an idea I came up with on a whim, so feel free to ignore it. I feel it would work well alongside random spawns, and possibly a smaller map.
I've always felt that minecraft, being a sandbox game, severely lacks immovable geographical resources worth fighting over(spawners are technically impossible to move, but are way too common to fight over). I also feel S lacks an overall goal to work towards, and is mostly just random skirmishes between players, rather than clans.
The buffs used on CTF serve a good example. Static things placed over the map that provide buffs of some form that can be captured and controlled. The buffs would be relatively minor so you don't become a PvP god if you manage to capture them all, but still helpful enough to where you want to go after them. They could serve as attractors to bring people to an area and encourage PvP, and be protected with a decently sized region to discourage building bases around them to make it impossible for others to cap them. Maybe the longer you hold them the more "points" you earn, increasing your rank as well? Could be configured to work with clans, encouraging people to form teams. Again, just throwing ideas out there.
That would only work on a factions or a server where people can grief into bases.
The concept is very successful. take four downs server for example.
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Yeah, pvp is completely dead now.
The only pvp I've had this rev is going to monroezabaletas base and killing him to get him to put on diamond armor.
and the people who zerg randomly.
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I think this video is completely relevant.
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They can, during the staff only mod voting, some people actually replied to the post instead of voting, realized that there was a poll, and their post was deleted.
I remember seeing posts replied to the poll, hitting refresh and seeing them completely disappear, as if there was never a post in the first place
Yes, Moderator and above forum accounts have the perms required to delete comments.
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very request cool plugin wow much agreement-gsand
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I am twilexis, AM(a)A!
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Posted · Edited by gsand
(Turn Down for What music video, should be autoembedded since it's IP Board :( )
Exactly!
-gsand
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