MasterCommaThe Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Currently our staff page is sorted into categories of Admins, Moderators, and prior staff. I would find it helpful if we also sorted each section by the number of modreqs each staff member has completed. That way players can quickly find the titles of staff who are generally most active in-game. Since the statistics of the number of modreqs performed by staff are already tracked, I don't think this would require significant effort to implement. As a stretch goal (to motivate staff perhaps) we could put a star by the names of the staff who have completed the most modreqs on each individual server.Alternatively, play time or block changes could be used as the determining factor for the sort order. Please respond below with your idea of whether this would be helpful for you and which criteria would best reflect staff accessibility to players. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobylane Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 No. Admins do more complex or contentious modreqs. Some are deliberately left for moderators or admins more familiar with the tools, or only admins have access to the tools. It's gamification of a stat that no-one should really be boasting about. More time (measured in hours) spent on modreqs is equally bad as it would lead to burn out. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silversunset01 Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Some sort of "currently online" indicator may be interesting, but I agree with tobylane adding those sorts of metrics to the staff page may make it more stressful than it already is for staff. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterCommaThe Posted February 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 Admins and mods are in separate categories, so I don't think there would be any issue with comparison of one vs. the other. Additionally I had assumed the actual statistics would be hidden and only the order would be shown. I agree, time is probably a bad measure.I would hope this wouldn't cause anyone stress and would be mostly a useful tool for players. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zburdsal Posted February 1, 2016 Report Share Posted February 1, 2016 A little green border around an online staff member or a dot next to their name would be more helpful for anyone looking for someone to contact, in my opinion. Such as even though I'd be at the top of this sorting, I'm not actually online that often, and almost any time I am, there's other mods online as well, as recently I've been playing at very standard times. Where as a little online indicator might help if there's only one mod online but they just started playing after a hiatus or if they just play at a time when modreqs aren't common. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneygale Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Play time sounds reasonable, and have online mods listed first 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EeHee2000 Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Sort each category by play-times, with something indicating whether a staff member is online. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XkinOEC Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 Didn't we have an almost complete website profile system that informed us if players were online and where they were? what happened to that beautiful thing that seems to have gone forgotten, it was like a part of these massive website upgrades we were supposed to get... But besides that, I both do and don't like this idea... I do like it because it will show which staff members are actually active because I have a hard time believing that our 59 staff members are all active. I don't like it because similarly it also does not portray activity levels either... When I was a moderator, I played during the time that we really never got any modreqs... I was active however as I was constantly finding grief to clean up... Sadly even then, it was grief by someone who is already banned because the moderator who banned them never rolled back their edits... so despite doing quite a bit, it looked like I would do roughly 2 modreq's a week... Playtime would be far more accurate to look at. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneygale Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 I think splitting online staff by rank is a bit pointless. Either have an additional unranked list of online staff at the top (with the rest of the page unchanged), or remove all categories from the page and allow people to click through to a staffer's profile to see their rank. XkinOEC, if you're talking about the site williammck and I wrote, it's still on github. I heard from a nerd staffer (I forget who) a few weeks ago that nerd might just run it. If they did decide to do that, i'd help with updating it and finishing features if someone asked me. I still think it's one of the cheapest (in terms of man-hours) ways to attract and retain players at nerd. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four_Down Posted February 2, 2016 Report Share Posted February 2, 2016 XkinOEC, if you're talking about the site williammck and I wrote, it's still on github. I heard from a nerd staffer (I forget who) a few weeks ago that nerd might just run it. If they did decide to do that, i'd help with updating it and finishing features if someone asked me. I still think it's one of the cheapest (in terms of man-hours) ways to attract and retain players at nerd. He could also be referring to the one Slide was apparently making at one point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XkinOEC Posted February 3, 2016 Report Share Posted February 3, 2016 Or I could be referring to both, first being the one that barneygale had shown us that looked to be entirely complete, kinda got me really excited, but then heard from our lovely head admin of the time that we would not do that for we had been working on something else "cooler and more intuitive" for the website for "several months now" that was well over 6 months ago now. Not a thing has changed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneygale Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 IIRC slide did do some work to port the existing website to symfony. For reference the website I co-founded in 2007 began porting to Symfony in 2008 and still hasn't finished (and someone else started a python version in 2010!). MVC in PHP is like pulling nails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XkinOEC Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 Barneygale, as much as you and I love back-end changes, the community on nerd.nu is not exactly going to care about those changes if they make absolutely no visual/tangible changes to the front end... we need a new website, as a whole, not just a new framework... even if said framework is what makes it possible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneygale Posted February 4, 2016 Report Share Posted February 4, 2016 I agree completely; that was sort-of the point I was making! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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