Moderation Team Blog

How do you choose who is given an invitation to join the mod team? I would personally accuse the recent appointments to be politically motivated and would like to request senior mod staff look at them.

They send out a block of chocolate to each CN player, and put golden tickets inside a small number of them. If you get a golden ticket, you become a moderator. It's simple!

So same as always. Mates inviting mates

Can we get a youtube video or videos posted from musically inclined mods doing covers of Billy Joel songs?

How do you choose who is given an invitation to join the mod team? I would personally accuse the recent appointments to be politically motivated and would like to request senior mod staff look at them.

Moderation invitation are given based upon nominations from all moderators to senior staff for forum users who have a good posting history of following the rules (minor warn violations are not held against them), posting history time frame and in-game history as far as following the rules.

All nominations in recent memory, including the most recent, none of the moderation nominated people from their own alliance or sphere of political friends. Senior Staff tries to ensure that nominations are diverse and represent a cross-section of the forum/game. After nominations then there is discussion between Senior Staff and decisions made from there.

The mixture of moderators right now is representative of the game, including the most recent victims additions.

I hope that answers your question.

What kind of prize are you thinking of for the contest? I think something unique like the winner getting to create a forum pip for their own use or a custom gov type in-game would be better than in-game stats; even if the gov type just replaces a current one for the user & has the same bonuses.

As for the negative/positive rating of posts, I think a lot of people would rate posts down based on who's posting & rate down political opponents regardless of the quality of the post. Adding a feature to click like for a post could maybe be interesting, but I don't see a big need for it.

What I would like is when blocking a user, having an extra option so you don't even see "This post is hidden because you have chosen to ignore posts by "Blocked User". View it anyway?" would be nice. So when you read a thread you can't see they've even posted in the thread unless someone quotes them; completely filtering them out except if their post is the OP for an announcement. Then if you do decide you want to see what they've said, you can adjust your options.

What kind of prize are you thinking of for the contest? I think something unique like the winner getting to create a forum pip for their own use or a custom gov type in-game would be better than in-game stats; even if the gov type just replaces a current one for the user & has the same bonuses.

Interesting suggestions, will put them up for consideration. Right now the prize is 3 Donations of $30.

As for the negative/positive rating of posts, I think a lot of people would rate posts down based on who's posting & rate down political opponents regardless of the quality of the post. Adding a feature to click like for a post could maybe be interesting, but I don't see a big need for it.

I can see your position on that and those are some of the cons I view as well of turning that feature on.

What I would like is when blocking a user, having an extra option so you don't even see "This post is hidden because you have chosen to ignore posts by "Blocked User". View it anyway?" would be nice. So when you read a thread you can't see they've even posted in the thread unless someone quotes them; completely filtering them out except if their post is the OP for an announcement. Then if you do decide you want to see what they've said, you can adjust your options.

Hell yeah this would be awesome. However, unless it's available as an add-on mod for the IPS Forums, it's just a pipe dream.

There's no modifications I can find for ipb that do it.

There's no modifications I can find for ipb that do it.

That sucks.

Well it's nice to see some community outreach by the police moderation staff. Post the new rules so I can complain about them.

Well it's nice to see some community outreach by the police moderation staff. Post the new rules so I can complain about them.

Want to slash some tires?

it only took 8 years to fix the whole moderation forum issue.. wow..