Moderator curriculum
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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 /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