itdontmatta

Hello, soon-to-be Aevosians (?)

Warclaims and raids will be disallowed for two weeks following the release of 9.0 so everyone can enjoy the new map and get their bread up. I may re-evaluate this after the two week mark, depending on how far we've gotten along with our 9.0 war rules.

Thank you,

Alex

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MODERATION TEAM UPDATE

SPRING 2023

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Hi everyone,

It has been 283 days since our last team update. 

As you all know, Rilath stepped down in September and I replaced him as Mod Admin for a second chance at leading the team. I had relatively stable activity during the first few months of that, but as my final semester at university ramped up, I was distracted maintaining my IRL priorities. Now that I don’t have a 7-course workload and have landed future employment, I have a stable schedule. I can finally give the care and attention to the server & team they both rightfully deserve.

At the beginning of the year, I wanted to shake up Moderation. I sent this message to Moderation, and selected current members and prospective applicants to be the leaders of our new team. 

Quote

 

@Moderation 

 

Statement

 

Our mission is to facilitate a community that, in spirit and culture, does not need moderators. To cultivate an environment where people can thrive in mutual respect, creative dignity, and heartwarming hospitality. We must provide systems where players can independently and easily settle differences, not only coexist but thrive in mutual company, and which abandon elitism in favor of initiative and positivity.

 

I have a plan for a fundamentally restructured team from the bottom up. __Today__ is the official start date of the new Moderation team.

 

Here's my plan.

 

For Myself

- Adopt proactive leadership, be a liaison into the admin world

- Empower moderators to make lasting low-effort high-impact changes with meaningful duties

- Be there consistently for each member in my team

- Implement and wrap up moderation projects, leave none in limbo

- Make time to chill in VC, especially during general work

 

For Moderators

- Commit fully to the mission statement, work yourself out of a job.

- Take ownership over the state of community culture and sentiment

- Initiative-first mindset. Actively seek ways to improve the server, player experience, and community relations

- Reject bureaucratic paperwork and forms, find ways to eliminate barriers to playing the damn game

 

We are in this together.

 

There is no "moderator plus". No managers or seniority. Each moderator on the team has an equal vote in the direction we want to take this server. And starting today, we will vote with our work and our actions — not our words.

 

Finally,

 

I'm making a bet today that is either blissfully stupid or utterly brilliant. It may totally collapse on me and I will take full responsibility for it. But, I believe the Moderation team can be an astounding, awe-inspiring team for this community.

 

With a smaller team, I feel that our unnecessary, high effort low output busy-work has been eliminated. As it currently stands, we have 9 members on the team. This is lower than what my ideal time size is (11-13), but as I type this we are actively looking for new members to join us. 

At that, below is our modreq data since March.
 

This is a list of the topics we are currently discussing.

CRP Rules - Analyzing our current rules, and adjusting them to make the system simple.

• Lead by: @Spoopy_Duck

Internal Conflict (completed) - Adding new aspects to the system and redefining the rules.

• Lead by: @Masouri

Mod Handbook - Updating our mod handbook.

• Lead by: @itdontmatta & @Fireheart

Petty Theft and Heists - Analyzing our current rules, and adjusting them to make the system simple.

• Lead by: @itdontmatta, @frankdh, @Spoopy_Duck, and @The60th

Chat Sanitization - Bettering our filter system.

• Lead by: @Fireheart, @Spoopy_Duck, and @frankdh 

Forum Rules - Redoing our rules, and making them consistent with our mission statement.

• Lead by: @Spoopy_Duck

Forum Permissions - Self explanatory

• Lead by: @itdontmatta

Misc Rules - Proposal of various rules, including adjusting our trap, build, and redstone / door / key rules.

• Lead by: @The60th

Romance RP - How we can tackle escalation of Romance RP better, and discussing its place on our server.

• Lead by: @Mod Team

Mod Forum Guide - Reworking our internal guide for handling forum warnings and rule enforcement.

• Lead by: @Fireheart, @Spoopy_Duck, @Ibn Khaldun

I also want to take a moment for some honorable mentions to current and previous moderators.

Lastly, if you want to be involved in future discussions surrounding some of the projects that we are currently working on, including potential war rules - join our Mod Team discord at this link! If you want to be even more involved, we now have three specializations on the team that you can choose to focus on if you apply, including: server moderation, forum moderation, and conflict moderation. We are currently looking for more people who would rather lurk the forums than log in-game (forum janitors), as well as moderators who seek to fill all three specializations. If you're interested in joining, apply at this link.

Sincerely,

Your Madmin

Alex (itdontmatta#3889)

Although I disagree with the way Jihnyny went about their concern, I respect their opinion. I'm honestly fed up with the "Why have you killed my entire family?" comments @'ing all of staff, moderation, and admins. A lot of you sit on your ass typing up your tiktok comment responses to crack a quick joke or accuse without any sort of context just to get an easy +1. The other lot of you +1 a post thinking you're doing something by clicking the "I support" button on a change.org thread without looking at any of the context. I want to take a chance to commend @TreeSmoothie @TheBigBubbles @K_rusader @UnBaed @MaltaMoss @Sarven and @Cloakedsphere for posting actual feedback for how we can improve our systems. I might not agree with all of them, but it's a step towards getting to where we want this community to be because I KNOW it's not perfect.

This shit?

2 hours ago, DrunkPapaBear said:

Can’t wait to say we told you so when ToxicApple gets a tos ban

2 hours ago, Borin said:

matta is maliciously useless

1 hour ago, Tigergiri said:

... hmm go touch grass 

is so fucking useless.

A lot of you seem to forget that I was once in your shoes as a normal player. I am not some bureaucratic lizardman who is trying to let pedophiles and predators play on our server. I know that this server is an outlet for many people to escape their real life situations and trauma, and the last thing I want is for someone to be reminded of that here. As I've said in every other post that points out a problem with our safety or player conduct policy, DM me on discord and I'd love to have a conversation with you on how we can move forward.

Hi Jihnyny, 

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I have always discouraged players from taking matters into their own hands, because it usually ends up in them getting banned as well. Generally, what players do off the server (and as long as it stays so) does not affect their ability to play on LotC. This, of course, does not apply to safety violations, wherein we punish for that whether or not it has happened on the server. In the case that someone, like ToxicApple, is apart of these groups off the server, and maintains proper behavior within our safety guidelines, we do not punish for it. 

I am unsure where your distrust of the Mod team comes from. We have previously banned you for making inappropriate, sexualized comments towards event characters in the past, so we definitely do take these cases of people acting strange on the server seriously. 

If you had simply come to my DMs, or any other admin's, this matter could be resolved and investigated further. Yet, instead of the logical approach - you've decided to pitchfork on the forums against this person and myself. Despite that, I am going to analyze the situation, and determine with the rest of the administration whether we should reevaluate our existing safety and player conduct policies. 

Best,

Alex