Ben 2,378 / 31,826 Report Post Posted November 26, 2020 Hello everyone! The Council has been hard at work answering a lot of questions about the status of our Moderation Team, and would like to give everyone a little bit of an update on what’s been going on behind the scenes! First… answering the burning question, how will the team work? How will the new team work? In the beginning, we only had a few Discord servers, and managing only a few discords with our prior system worked very well for a while, but now we have many different Official GFL Discord servers, the majority of them pertaining to a certain Division (E.g.. CS:GO, GMOD, Rust, TF2). While the structure of our Discords have drastically changed, our Moderation team did not. The team remained mostly the same, with very few changes to its own structure. Each of our Official Discords will now have a dedicated team of 2+ moderators to tend to their server, and only their server. We will also have Senior Moderators, their responsibility is to ensure that Moderators are behaving appropriately, making sure that Moderators are following our Moderation Etiquette, and they will also be moderating globally in both of our Forums and Discords. This is expanded on below. Localization One of the main concerns of the previous team was that they “didn’t understand” the culture of all of the Discords that they moderated, and that our team was "spread too thin". For this reason, we have decided to implement moderators that know the communities they will be moderating. We’ve seen great success with the CWRP Moderators, and this is our effort to replicate that on a much larger scale. This also reduces the barrier of activity in all of our Discords, thus allowing the community to have more mods where we need them. Instead of everyone being required to moderate all of our Official Discords, they will only be tasked with one. Filling in the Gaps A team as large as this will need to be overseen by not only it’s Team Leader, but also a few Senior Moderators. These Senior Moderators will be experienced and assist the Moderation Team Leader in training and maintaining the team. Senior Moderators will be available to consult on situations that other Moderators are unsure of. What else has happened? The former Moderation Team was relieved of their duties on 11/14/20 in favor of the new team we’re building. https://gflclan.com/forums/topic/65809-announcement-regarding-the-moderation-team/ We understand the way that this was handled was brash, and we have since issued an apology to all former Moderators for not notifying them beforehand of their team being dissolved. In the future, we will take consideration to inform staff members of situations such as this before announcing it publicly. The Global Discord ruleset and Discord Punishment guidelines have been updated and expanded upon. We released these modified rules/guidelines so that everyone can provide some feedback before implementation, it will be up for two days. The thread can be found here: https://gflclan.com/forums/topic/66399-feedback-moderation-rules-and-punishment-guidelines/ The Moderator Etiquette guidelines for all of our Moderators have been updated, adding a list of punishments for all team members and guides on how to handle criticism. On 11/17/20, we began the process of selecting members for the new team. To do this we are working with Division staff to find people with interest, as well as looking over Moderation applications that already exist. On 11/26/20, with assistance from Division Leaders, I chose the divisional-specific Discord Moderators. The new Moderators in each division can be found at the bottom of this post. We are still working to appoint a new Team Leader. New Division-Specific Discord Moderators: CS:GO QueenKill1o1 Quad ColaCanFan Infra SQUIRRELY GMod Jarm Plum Aurora Duck Rust Hatehim222 MadTurkey Bue Ace7 TF2 Lachaine Cuasi Scott Some of the moderators will also be moderating Main Discord. Additionally, applications will finally be dealt with - within the next few days, be prepared to see some new Forum Moderators, some former Discord Moderators returning. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarm323 170 / 6,586 Report Post Posted November 26, 2020 Aww yeah. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis 578 / 11,997 Report Post Posted November 26, 2020 Good luck to all current applicants. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry 495 / 7,788 Report Post Posted November 26, 2020 wow who knew the temp mods would actually become permanent 😱 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenity 546 / 7,380 Report Post Posted November 26, 2020 Congrats to everyone! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
TheJitFace 699 / 18,157 Report Post Posted November 26, 2020 Manager needs mod on their own discord server now? hm jitticus Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TokenDude 74 / 4,265 Report Post Posted November 26, 2020 Congrats to you all ; ) Token -Former Nerd- Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapiJesu 71 / 0 Report Post Posted November 26, 2020 Pog Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bae 2,489 / 41,505 Report Post Posted November 27, 2020 congratulations to the new team! credits to @Clavers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
Yogpod 122 / 2,890 Report Post Posted November 27, 2020 http://pls.propkill.me/rsnJ.gif Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozkody or Killes 67 / 2,270 Report Post Posted November 27, 2020 Grats Former CWRP Admin - / Currently CWRP - Main - Gmod - Rust Discord Mod Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
salmon23 18 / 824 Report Post Posted November 27, 2020 congratulations to the new moderation team Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylon Smithers 267 / 3,849 Report Post Posted November 27, 2020 gary mo? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
Kaitsedd 81 / 2,599 Report Post Posted November 27, 2020 I have mixed feelings about this, but congratulations none the less 𝓚𝓪𝓲𝓽𝓼𝓮𝓭𝓭 Qualified gamer and professional moron Admin on Breach (loony bin) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options... Achievements
L0st 106 / 2,791 Report Post Posted November 27, 2020 Congratulations to the new mods! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColaCanFan 31 / 1,194 Report Post Posted November 27, 2020 haha mod time peepohappy Discord: ColaCanFan#7378 Steam: ColaCanFan STEAM_0:1:454912980 Discord Mod/Server Admin (CSGO) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshy 4,363 / 44,847 Report Post Posted November 27, 2020 Thanks, guys! They are definitely excited about taking in new people too. Very excited. It's a great time to help join us and create the community the way you wanted- share your vision. Some of my most common feedback is the visible forum activity is too low. The last team had a little bit of a problem in that domain and I don't think it would be a good idea to go full circle there. I see a lot of you guys lurking on the forums a lot I trust you're super active behind the scenes and ready to share your ideas. Please join in on the discussions! So many of you all I wanted to basically post on the application saying "Yeah, this one is an easy yes! +1" but if post count is low... or high quantity of low quality posts, then we're really going to have to struggle and discuss on it. Make it easy for us we want you on the team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...