Moderator curriculum

Mod elementary

Review first with a community overseer or a senior mod before getting promoted as JrMod.

Review the rules

• What counts as grief and what doesn’t. How permissions are given, how to check perms. Killing, traps, dropped loot. What can be enforced and what can’t.
• Where to draw the lines for kid appropriate talk. What counts as bullying.
• Understand cheating. Review which mods are not allowed. Note that the list is not exhaustive.

How mods operate

• Keep an eye on what’s happening when you’re online, take action in chat if the somethings seems to get out of line
• Follow the alerts on discord and ingame. Discord alerts are not 100% reliable, always double check ingame what’s going on.
• Assume good intentions until there’s proof of malicious intent.
• Never use mod tools for personal gain or against other players for fun. Be responsible, players rely on you and look up to you.
• Keep the discussion about moderating decisions in the moderator discussion channel on discord.
• Moderate in public chat when possible, so other mods can see what is happening.
• Mods are expected to be online often, but not all the time. We all have lives. For more than 5 days’ absence please let the team know.

Welcoming new members

• Welcome and guide new members, be available for questions and encourage everyone to read the rules. Less work later if everyone gets a rule reminder when they first join.
• Always keep an eye on new players for a while to make sure they’ve come to play and not cause problems

Mod high

Hands-on teaching with a community overseer or a senior mod. After a JrMod has learned the commands and dealt with enough real life situations to be confident, they will be promoted to full moderator. See also File:The mod quest.png

Understand and learn the mod tools

• Learn /co inspect & /co lookup
• Read and understand the grief logs & alerts, how to spot issues and how to mark alerts handled
• Mod teleports: /tpo and /co teleport for easy access to problems, /co-back to return
• Sneaky inspections: /invsee, /endersee, /vanish
• Fixing grief: /co rollback & /co restore. When to use action, keep radius short, include playername. Global rollbacks. Also /co undo
• What to do with duplicated loot: /disposal or /trash
• How to use /jail, /warn, /note, /ban and /tempban

Using the alert list symbols

• ✅ checked, no problem
• ❓ seen, may be a problem, must be investigated
• ❗ seen, clearly a problem, needs rollback
• 🔄 rolled back, issue taken care of
• ☑️ checked, no problem but unresolved issues above (this symbol is blue on discord)

Setting alert locations to ignore

• /griefalert ignore x y z

How to deal with different situations

• Always try talking first, unless clearly an attack/raid
• Require a confirmation of understanding the rules on chat, and a promise to follow the rules
• When to give warnings
• When to use jail
• When to ban

Mod college

Deeper learning with a community overseer or a senior mod.

• Advanced lookup and rollback: different actions (block, container, kill, +, -), different blocks, include, exclude
• When to suspect cheating or trying to harm the server
• Understand different mods and how they can be problematic
• Understand tps and lag, what moderators can do about it
• Understand some server mechanics eg. why duping doesn’t work, what paper is
• Cracked accounts and why they’re not allowed