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 The Mod Quest
Understand and learn the mod tools
- Learn /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
- How to use /jail, /warn, /note and /ban
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)
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