A couple of things admins could do better on.

[Rechanted Live]

Before I begin with anything I would like to say that I don't dislike any admins or mods, if anything I think they are pretty decent, but I feel some need to improve on some aspects of having their role. But thank you for those who are doing their job when they can and making the server not an anarchy server.

First off I think mods and admins should be a little easy on people. It is not laws like the real world, but a rule for a Garry's mod server. Say someone is minging or placing something on the streets, and you can tell they are new to Garry's mod DarkRP or Garry's mod as a whole, cut them some slack. Obviously I don't know if you do this in specific but still try to do that with newer people. With things like terror or adverting, try to tell them that terror is not aloud as fast as possible, so they don't kill anyone, or don't warn them if they RDM someone before someone / you said there is no terror or right after when not even you could read it that fast. And there are a good chunk of rules so people won't remember all of them at some times. Most people are either cringe kids, edgy teens, or man children so go verbal more instead of always a warn. Really besides that its not the big thing that made me want to make this

What I feel like is the big thing is the off duty staff. I feel it is not bad to be off duty if you want to just play the server at some times, but try to be on duty more than off duty. Some mods I could think of that who did that is like B00mer where he was only on duty, and Kil, but he off the server more than other mods like Juarez, Creeper, and Ripple. (sorry if I missed anyone they were the people who came to mind). When you are off duty as a mod, you should still bring people who are mass rdming or vote kicking for no reason, not just sit there or bring people up that do the things to you. If people make sits about a big problem, put it into your own hands. Plus don't join the server then be AFK, its different if you're in a base grinding but just sitting there in spawn as a citizen takes away demoting people and makes people think you are actually doing something, when you are not. Another thing is to probably take away the "Don't demote because a mod is on" thing, and make it like vote kicking where it is a donator thing, or make it just a normal all users are able to demote. Other than that good job mods for doing your job, humans make mistakes, but try to get better at some of these things and don't listen to people doing /advert MODS SUCK 20 times because you warned them.

TL;DR

Don't be a super harsh mod its just a video game

If you have the ability to step in, step in.

Be on duty more than off duty

Remember Garry's Mod players are cringe kids, edgy teens, and man children.

Don't join the server then don't do anything like just sitting in spawn as a citizen for hours

Take away the demote when admins are on

 

Please tell me what you think, sorry if I came off as rude but those are some things I think all mods should think about while being on the server.

 

[Doctor Hunt]

Hey, thanks for an interesting thread.

Staff are pretty lenient when it comes to warning / banning people (at least that's what I think?). They can recognize players will ill-intentions and punish them accordingly, however they will try and help new players that come onto the server. Usually they give these new players a verbal warning and have them read the MOTD.

Staff also should be stepping in when issues like MRDM is occurring as those are major scale issues. Usually, staff can recognize when they need to go on duty for issues like this which should be no problem.

As for the sitting in spawn AFK, sometimes when AFK for too long (say they're just in-base as a thief or like on-duty but AFK for a bit), they can be demoted from their role back to citizen which teleports them to spawn. I don't think it's intentional for the staff members to just sit AFK in spawn like that while things happen around them, it's just the "auto-demote". Also players can still be loading in during this time which can also be considered.

Appreciate your approach to this topic rather than just making a thread to bash the mods. They're people after all and they don't need to be doing this, it's just an extra responsibility that they volunteered for. 

Thanks again!

Edited December 29, 2020 by Doctor Hunt

[Remuchu]

Players are free to vote demote if no mods are currently on duty or actively taking tickets, by the way

[pian]

I really like this thread! It's super well-written, and I agree with a lot of sentiments other than "be on duty more than off duty." While I feel like the duty of being mod is lost on some people, most mod joined the staff team because they enjoy the server, and wish to help it out, rather than just sit on mod all day. We joined the server to rp, and we became staff to help people rp as well as rp ourselves. There are definitely some mods that can be more observant, but at the end of the day, like you said, people that play gmod are cringe kids, edgy teens and man children. We are not exempt from that. 

 

I also agree on the ideas of being nicer on newer players. When I was a new player, I had NO clue what I was doing. I made blackout bases, bases that made you jump, and all kinds of things. I try to give verbals to people I don't know, as well as newer players, but it is all at the jurisdiction of the mods. 

On 1/6/2021 at 7:21 AM, Remuchu said:

Players are free to vote demote if no mods are currently on duty or actively taking tickets, by the way

I'm pretty sure he knows, and that's why he specified "when mods are on." 

 

This is a great post! This is definitely something I think most staff should read through, input from the community is awesome! 

Edited January 8, 2021 by ripple