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Post by MrStonedOne » #422185

Over the next few weeks I'm going to be unifying the forum administration with the game administration team.

Meaning in game admins will have limited mod powers in the on topic sections, game masters will have global mod powers, and headmins will be forum admins.

The most important part is i'll be making a set of unified community rules that apply equally to ooc, forums, discord, and irc, as right now we have a mess of rules and conflicting standards.

This also means admin complaints, ban appeals, and admin feedback will grow in purpose, something that players have asked for for a while.

In regards to the current bit of drama, I'll be encoding some standards relating to communication with banned users about why they are banned. (as a side note: This will also include a general rule for admins against announcing to other users that users are banned or why they are banned.)

If you are wondering what direction I'm going to go with all of this, I'll leave you with a quote.
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Post by PKPenguin321 » #422186

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Post by Bluespace » #422192

MSO putting the leathers on the administration.
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Post by Bluespace » #422193

Goofball died for our sins.
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Post by Dax Dupont » #422196

>This will also include a general rule for admins against announcing to other users that users are banned or why they are banned.

Will this include in ahelps? I often let the victim know of what action was taken, especially if they seem especially wronged.
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Post by Wyzack » #422197

Is there still going to be an announcement made about the recent stupid drama bullshit surrounding the goofball ban? I think it is a long time coming for the amount of shit stirring it has caused
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Re: Some changes.

Post by Pepper » #422206

Admin accountability when?
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Post by Timbrewolf » #422211

I can't say it's an outright bad idea but I want to point out major reasons we never did something like this in the past was to try to give the forums a bit more of a "neutral zone" territory between the administration and playerbase. It wasn't until late in the Erro forums era that in-game admins were even given forum mod powers, and even then it was only a very few of us who were extremely active on the forums (Ie like the whole cleaning up FNR thing) and dedicated to keeping the discourse neutral and fair.

I think the recent situations, my own situation that lead to my hut confiment as well, shows how important it is that maybe game admins and such DON'T have control over the discussion forums.

Having a unified code of conduct sounds great, but I think it would be best served if the forums had their own independent staff that was intended to remain impartial when it comes to SRS BSNS.
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Post by Arianya » #422213

Dax Dupont wrote:>This will also include a general rule for admins against announcing to other users that users are banned or why they are banned.

Will this include in ahelps? I often let the victim know of what action was taken, especially if they seem especially wronged.
To add to this, sometimes someone did something particularly notorious (BoHbombing the shuttle as a non-antag, etc etc) and it tends to eat up OOC for a while with people asking if they got banned/if anything's being done. I wouldn't say we need to supply the information in those situations but I definitely think it's helpful to players who otherwise can end up feeling like the admins are letting people get away with stuff.
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Re: Some changes.

Post by Lazengann » #422219

I share Dax's question. It's quite irritating to a player if they get no closure when they adminhelp.
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Post by Iatots » #422220

Giving both more power and responsabilities to every single admin after the recent headmin fiasco seems counterintuitive.
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Post by MrStonedOne » #422221

Half the reason we had the fiasco was because of a lack of clarity over power and responsibilities
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Post by Timbrewolf » #422227

I think a better solution is to just get a better forum team rather than give the people who just made the mistakes even more control over the whole playground, no?
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Post by Timbrewolf » #422233

To put it another way:

Iterating that people don't have a right to know why other people have been banned
At the same time that you give everyone responsible for the bans power over the #1 vehicle for communication outside the game

You put these two things together and it starts to look like shit is heading in a real skeevy direction.
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Post by MrStonedOne » #422243

Timbrewolf wrote:To put it another way:

Iterating that people don't have a right to know why other people have been banned
At the same time that you give everyone responsible for the bans power over the #1 vehicle for communication outside the game

You put these two things together and it starts to look like shit is heading in a real skeevy direction.
Are you really saying that admins announcing that people were banned doesn't look like preschool banter?

Its unprofessional and kinda shitty
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Post by FantasticFwoosh » #422316

How do admins new to the staff or are currently being trained by others factor in? A large influx of new staff over the course of this and last year leave the question whether they will manage to slip into the new system, either aren't needed or if aren't retrained again under new guidelines could re-establish the problem.

Eitherway, the culture change is appreciated.

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Post by shabang50 » #422367

What the fuck is all this it’s just a fucking game guys chill :honk:
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Post by bandit » #422387

As far as telling people someone got banned, it can help a lot in cases where someone is obviously griefing and then at round's end, when they're not antag, you get a flood of ahelps at round end and the beginning of the next round all going "HEY SO URIST MCDUMBFUCK TOOLBOXED ME TO DEATH AND 10 OTHER PEOPLE CAN YOU LOOK INTO THIS."

edit: basically what arianya said, but this happens all the time
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Post by oranges » #422430

The not telling people you banned someone is halfbaked and I doubt it will get enforced with much enthusiasm by the admin team, it's quite common to let people know the griefer last round was banned so they know it was handled etc.

I mean we don't tell everyone the specifics but it's not uncommon.

Also the ban will be public when they appeal it anyway.

Merging the forum and admin teams is fine I guess, there was never a really active forum moderation team and our community clearly isn't big enough to support both.

Besides if people want to post without fear of the admins they know where they can go!
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Post by oranges » #422439

although actually looking at the points timbre was making he makes good points, maybe we should still aim to have a neutral forum admin team

lord knows some of our admins like ausops are quick to abuse their forum powers on people they don't like
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Post by starmute » #422474

Why wouldn't you communicate to a banned individual why they were banned? That's like a police officer throwing you in prison without telling you the reason or letting you appeal.

Am I just misunderstanding this but for example a blacklist ban like what happened to goof (with no prior warning or probation) would just pop up as "you were banned for x reason goodbye". Nobody would "be the wiser" but the admin team who banned him and people who "leak" information to the public would be punished?

In my mind if someone is banned for a reason you should tell them that reason and then allow them to appeal the issue on the forums. If this happened to begin with the whole recent incident would have never happened.

As far as making admins accountable for their actions on the forums, I'll believe it when I see it.
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Post by Dax Dupont » #422534

starmute wrote:Why wouldn't you communicate to a banned individual why they were banned? That's like a police officer throwing you in prison without telling you the reason or letting you appeal.
Reread the thread, he clearly states that admins shouldn't tell OTHERS if and/or why a person got banned .
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Post by Wyzack » #422560

The problem is that our bluenames are all literally whos that have bursts of activity and then vanish for years. Make me one I am still shackled to this place after all these years
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Post by TehSteveo » #422677

Wyzack wrote:The problem is that our bluenames are all literally whos that have bursts of activity and then vanish for years. Make me one I am still shackled to this place after all these years
Wtf Wyzack....I thought we were better than this...
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Post by PKPenguin321 » #422686

Wyzack wrote:The problem is that our bluenames are all literally whos that have bursts of activity and then vanish for years. Make me one I am still shackled to this place after all these years
Most of them but not all, I'm one (I just never wear the blue name) for example
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Post by Wyzack » #422692

*unsheathes post count and teleprots behind u*

Heh, nothing personnel kid



Also I forgot about multi color names and my best pal stevo
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Post by MrStonedOne » #422727

CosmicScientist wrote:
Wyzack wrote:The problem is that our bluenames are all literally whos that have bursts of activity and then vanish for years. Make me one I am still shackled to this place after all these years
IF THIS LITERALLY WHO GETS ONE, I DEMAND ONE. pretty please your benevolence.

I HAVE +0.47 POSTS PER DAY UP ON WYZACK. and I have never ever abused power before.
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Post by Wyzack » #422742

That is the secret cosmic, I abused my power on behalf of the people who matter and that is why my ascent is assured
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Post by PKPenguin321 » #422878

Cosmic is a pretty cool guy he posts cards and doesn't afraid of anything
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CosmicScientist wrote:I feel Wyzack has just tipped his hand. He is pure evil and now no-one can stop him. Though what to do with this information, well, do we have a mary sue hero who can save the day?
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Post by Ricotez » #424025

I am personally of the opinion that there should be a separation of powers. A /tg/station trias politica, with the server, the forums and the codebase. If you want to make changes it should be to the checks and balances between them, rather than merging two branches of power into one.
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Post by Malkevin » #429765

[quote="MrStonedOne"
hornygranny wrote: This was so long ago not many people will remember, but we left goonstation because we wanted a place to play where we would all be treated fairly and transparently, rather than according to the whims of an admin team who didn't feel the need to justify their actions.
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Interesting sentiment, but perhaps Horny 'Separation of Codebase and Serverbase is Absolute' Granny isn't the best spokesperson for it - one may even say they're worst person for it.
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you're late
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this is racist tbh
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Post by callanrockslol » #430952

We should adopt a seniority system for forum mods. Clearly.

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We had that. It was shit and fell apart when the few people that cared left.

Why pretend that there's any separation between forum, code and server? In the time I've been playing we've been through three (four?) hosts, three forums, two code bases, literally endless drama and somehow the community has managed to stay together. There's people that don't even play the fucking spaceman game anymore but they're still here.
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CosmicScientist wrote:Did this happen?
no lol
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Post by Zarniwoop » #455555

MrStonedOne wrote: Its unprofessional and kinda shitty
This actually matters to you? Coulda fooled me with all the shitposting some of the staff around here does in serious topics. Seems like unprofessional and shitty is par for the course.
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Post by somerandomguy » #455655

Zarniwoop wrote:
MrStonedOne wrote: Its unprofessional and kinda shitty
This actually matters to you? Coulda fooled me with all the shitposting some of the staff around here does in serious topics. Seems like unprofessional and shitty is par for the course.
t. shitpost
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Post by terranaut » #481719

MrStonedOne wrote:
Timbrewolf wrote:To put it another way:

Iterating that people don't have a right to know why other people have been banned
At the same time that you give everyone responsible for the bans power over the #1 vehicle for communication outside the game

You put these two things together and it starts to look like shit is heading in a real skeevy direction.
Are you really saying that admins announcing that people were banned doesn't look like preschool banter?

Its unprofessional and kinda shitty
It should not be announced by an admin speaking in OOC, or any other way on the game server, that so-and-so got banned for this-and-that but I would be in favor of a banlog similiar to the one 4chan employs (for reference), except that the ckey of the banned account would be shown.
This eliminates any possible interpretation done by players in how the admin words it and there will be no ongoing lengthy discussion about it in OOC right after the ban. It's neutral and transparent for all sides, and if you don't wanna be put on the spot and have everybody know you got banned, then don't get banned.

It wouldn't need to be fancy, a sample could look like this:
CKEY - Reason - Duration - Admin
Terranaut - Maxcapped the escape shuttle as it was arriving on CentComm but before the round had ended due to lag, killing three others. Please be aware that rules are in effect until the round end message is displayed. - 1440 - Penterwast
Optionally the Round ID could be displayed aswell. Personally I can't think of a good use for the Round ID right now but I haven't been an admin for years so that doesn't mean anything.

Doing it this way also eliminates any and all hear-say and unrealiblity of second-hand information and enables a better base to discuss policy and handling with in the future. A banning admin is encouraged to give a clear and concise reason (more so than anyway). Furthermore it gives unexperienced admins an idea of how long a ban could be for a given action without them having to worry about being too lenient or too harsh when there's nobody around to ask.
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