Keelah
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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.
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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
victimsadditions.I hope that answers your question.
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Nah, that'd be bias toward one forum user. Now turning everyone's post to the color of hot pink...sign me up.
You and your extra 'u's.
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Could I request we remove the blue color text option from the forums?
Then you wouldn't be able to see me in the players logged into the forums.
Also, I fixed your question for you.
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Ok veering this conversation back into safer discussion topics.
What are the thoughts of turning on the reputation system for player's posts?
There are options:
Like System - If someone likes a post they click Like.
Postive Feedback - Where you click an up arrow and for each click the posts gets so many positive points.
Negative Feedback - Where you click a down arrow and for each click the posts gets so many negative points.
Both Positive/Negative - Where there is major battle between the positives and the negative ratings.
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This is all my fault. When trying to set up the mod blog, I accidentally re-published this post.
Warned for grave dig.
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I don't believe you.
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Hahaha.
That's one way of throwing them off your scent or is it. Maybe you are saying that cuz you really are one?
:tinfoil:
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Are the new moderators Xena of Amphipolis and Elend by any chance?
Shhhh...they haven't picked out their entrance music yet.
Yes, those are two and there should be some more coming aboard shortly.
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That would be fun. Moderators would have to pick an entrance theme. Course then we would have to have "bad guy" mods and "good guy" mods so people know who to cheer and boo for.
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You can see the full moderation team here.
In the next few days, after getting some responses from people, there will be an announcement made here this blog welcoming the new moderation team members.
As well as future announcements to keep the community informed when new moderators come on board in the future.
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Keelah, can you tuck me into bed? Scary neutrals are scary!
Take a bath that keeps the dirty hippies away.
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Getting unbanned is possible, just not for all, and I think that even if there was a general amnesty policy, there still needs to be an at the discretion of the Mod clause that they can invoke for particularly disgusting sorts of individuals.
Indeed. You are still on double secret probation.
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Does Admin have a Skype that I can contact?
Not that I'm aware of. He and I don't use it to communicate. We use other means.
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Is there any scope for Moderator Identities to be public if they also have active nations & in fact, require that moderators use their IG personas as moderators/ game staff.
Most other online games don't hide forum mod identities and it would mean better transparency of decisions, which in the past, have been accused of being politically driven.
While I understand the accusations, I don't see us breaking with tradition of keeping our identities private.
I believe, last time I looked, all moderators currently (not the Senior Staff of SoE and Andro) have active nations in game.
Any act by a moderator that comes in question as being politically driven will be reviewed by Senior moderation including Admin and dealt with immediately.
Course as long as we all (I mean me as a player as well) play by the rules and don't break the rules, then there is never any reason to worry about any false claims by players. Any player using mods as a weapon will be warned for reporting false reports.
As I said in the response to that private message I posted above, with the change of the moderation forums to being viewable by only mods and the players reporting this will stop any false reporting by players for political reasons. As far as the moderation, all actions are reviewed and if there is ever any question or concerns on a warn or action I am always available by private message and so is admin.
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I don't know what happened to Allan...according to records he self-retired back in July 2014.
As far as internships, I don't know. That'd be something to ask Admin.
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That is definitely something that can be looked at on a case by case basis.
The person in question can either post a thread in the Warn and Ban Appeal forums or private message me or Socrates.
The criteria that will be looked at on each situation:
- Length of time since banning.
- Whether there were ban evasion attempts and duration of time since last ban evasion.
- Behavior here at the forums (ie: anyone posting things intentionally to get banned like images, mod identities, and basically total disregard to forum rules in a deliberate manner).
Obviously the second and third criteria will eliminate many of the known persistent abusers, but I'm sure there are some that fall in the smaller group that did not try to circumvent rules.
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Accumulation of 8 years of playing the game as well as engaging in CNRP which required separate messages as the forums at that time didn't support conversations.
Ahhh true point, indeed.
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In the moderation top level of the forum the threads have been set to be secret until approved for many years now. Yes, if we approve a thread for discussion we will send a private message to the OP letting them know that their thread has been approved for discussion out of courtesy so they can "make their case" per se.
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Could I possibly request that my inbox is increased so I don't have to delete any messages?
Man, how do you have 200 pms? You should clean those up. However, I did up the maximum to 250.
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Received this pm and with permission am posting here with my response.
Hi Keelah,
I thought it was a great idea of you to post a moderator's blog to keep us informed and changing policies on the forums for the betterment. So I wanted to say thank you for your time and diligence to make the game more enjoyable and seamless. Since you pointed out if anyone has questions, they should message you or any member of the moderator team. Well, I got plenty of questions if you don't mind answering them?
How are moderators regulated? How often are they audited? What kind of audit do the moderators go through?
May I ask why the changes being implemented on the forums now? As opposed to... anytime in the past?
My apologies if I'm out of the line, let me know if I am.My response:
I have no problem answering questions that I can of course.
Moderators are regulated in a number of ways. First way of course, would be that moderation identities are supposed to be kept confidential to players and even other moderators. Secondly, we pick moderators to make sure we maintain a diverse group of individuals from all political sides, big alliances, microalliances, hippies and war alliances to make sure that any discussions always has every point of view. Also a diverse team ensures that in cases where one moderator happens to be in an alliance with a forum poster or has a in-character political opponent then they are highly encouraged to pass it along to one of the other moderators so that bias can't be brought into the equation.
Of course with myself, most everything that I make a decision on in-game or even at the forums, I always include admin in the conversation to ensure that I'm being fair to the moderators, fair to the players and certainly so admin is in the loop so nothing takes him by surprise.
As far as auditing, that has been done previously once every few months. From here on out they will be done once a month. Things taken into consideration are moderation actions and reviewing them to make sure moderators are acting within the rules themselves. Also reviewed are their activity and ensuring we maintain an active moderation team to maintain the diversity. Those are the most important things we check in an audit because they affect the balance and confidence from the players on the moderation staff. In those audits, we certainly do monitor forum admin actions, in-game moderation actions, and forum moderation actions to ensure that one moderator will not be doing all of the work. This is important not in the sense that doing too much work is bad, but work needs to be spread out between different moderators to not have it appear that one moderator is targeting a person or an alliance just because they happen to be always active and doing all the work before other moderators can do it. This has recently been a problem with myself particularly and why the push right now for an active moderation staff so that I'm not getting all the reports or moderation actions and also to allow a chain of command for the player to question any moderator action.
The reason for the changes now would be reviewing what we have done in the past and seeing how we can improve things and make it better and of course fair. Of course, any time leadership is moved around, as in myself now being Head Moderator, there are always changes new blood brings to any organization. One of the most recent changes that was done was the changing of the moderation forums to being viewable by the players reporting and all mod staff. In my opinion, this was a necessary change that should have happened years ago.
Thanks for your questions and I hope my answers help some.
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Hey there,
I took over moderating the CN Subreddit, r/Cybernations. If you guys would like to bring a member of the CN Mod Team over there, shoot me a PM and I'll set it up.
There have been a few posts over there that would have resulted in or directly constituted violations of the Game Rules or Terms of Service, and I have cracked down on those best I can. The latest was a dude who was trying to pay people IRL $$ to "destroy his roommate's nation." That was a fun one.
But yeah, thought I would mention it so that y'all know the goal of that subreddit is to be a compliment to the CN Forums, not a "rules free" replacement.
Thank you for your comment. This is under discussion and I will let you know the answer.
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