Moderator Instructions

The Process

First of all read and understand the Moderation page. That is our code of law.

Assignment 

It is a useful convention that everybody moderates his own section. That is, if a moderator plays Tanx regularly then he is the primary responsible for the Tanx forum and the Tanx rooms.

Tools

Forum admin area

Administration area: forum.flyordie.com/admin

Before you start, FlyOrDie staff grants moderation permission to your regular player nick. On the login screen enter your regular player name and password.

From here you can move topics, delete topics and delete messages.

You might also edit a message, so instead of deleting the message itself, you should just delete the content of the message. /p>

Communication

You can communicate with other moderators at https://www.flyordie.com/forum/categories/moderators which is only visible to moderators. You might also contact any other moderator in the games.

Banishment

When you're in the game logged in with your moderator nick, there is a special tool available from the player info page, i.e. the moderation button.
The process is quite simple, you have to specify the reason, by selecting one of the pre-set reasons on the right side, then set duration of the banishment (leave empty if permanent), and finally press "give demerit", "ban temporarily" or "ban permanently".
You can give a custom description besides the default public reasons, which will be displayed for the player when logging in, even if there is default selected before.
Notes inserted in the note filed will be only displayed for the moderators, players can't see this one.
Add note field and button on the moderation screen will add the note with current date and moderator name.

You can still edit the moderation record of a player without adding date and name, just like before using the "save notes only button", e.g. when adding names to the "aka list" of certain players...

This is where you can remove introductions or pictures as well.
Rules for permanent banishment is quite strict, it can be only applied if the nick itself violates rules or if it is a secondary nick which is used only for provocation.
Banishment over 24 hours is generally not recommended, only for repeated, intentional provocations or after a few shorter bans.

After banning the player you may boot him/her from the lobby with the /boot command. Clicking on a player's name in the player list after typing /boot will automatically type the name of the given player there.
User search link: https://games.flyordie.com/s/moderationSearch.html

Suggestion for beginners: only apply demerits during the first week as a moderator, and only apply temporary bans or demerits (no perm bans) in the next 2 weeks. Watch and listen to the more experienced mods. Never confront any other moderator in public. That's what the moderator list and internal forum is for ;)

Available commands

Note: Use double quotes around the player name if it includes spaces.
Clicking a player in the player list will automatically insert /msg "player" into the chat input box, so it's easy to move to the beginning of the text (press Home) then replace the command with another one (/mod, /info, /boot).

/boot
Boot player from room: /boot playername
Use it parallel with the web moderation tools.


/mod
Assign demerit point to player in lobby: /mod playername
Remove demerit point from player in lobby: /mod playername -
Use it parallel with the web moderation tools.


/info
Show player info page: /info playername
Moderators can show this page even for players that aren't currently logged in (assuming they know the correct spelling of the wanted name).
Moderators can query a list of players with same ip-address: /info playername =
The queried player must be logged in at that time. All players having the same ip-address will be listed in the chat box.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Same ip-addresses indicate mostly that someone logged in multiple times using different names. However, different users in an intranet sharing a common firewall have the same ip-address too.
Players logged out / disconnected within 15 minutes will be included in this list too.
Situation: A moderator boots/bans a player then he reenters using another name.
The moderator can use /info on the new player to see, if he is from the same ip-address as the previously banned player was from.
NOTE: Dial-up connections reuse ip-addresses. It's very unlikely though, that a dial-up ip-address will be reused within 15 minutes after a logout _AND_ the new (different) dial-up user will login into the very same room at FlyOrDie.
Note: Player names in the chat can be clicked on to bring up the player info page.

/shout
Sends out a message that only moderators can see on their screens, even in other rooms.

/op (Tanx only)
Show creator of operation: /op operation
(Use this to find out who used an inappropriate name for the op.)
Rename operation: /op operation new name
(Note: Demerited players cannot give custom names to operations.)
Operations can be referenced by their name or number.

Enhancement ideas

You may notice that the tools you get are far from being perfect. The good news that they can be enhanced relatively easier then - for example - the games (the tools don't have to look professionally etc.). If you have some idea which makes moderation easier send it to the email list.

You may also recommend changes to the Moderation rules, for example if you feel that something is missing or not clean enough.