OK, so I've never really shared most of these policies/guidelines outside of a few other really, really ancient mods of VB.
In order to become a mod of VB, you had to continuously promote badging or run anything having to do with badges over a long period of time.
I never released this information because I didn't want anyone to try and show-off or intentionally get the job. If you truly were into running TFs for badges, volunteering to help others get badges and so forth, I (or occasionally one of the other long-time mods who knew the guidelines) would promote the person to a moderator.
I felt it had to be over a long enough period of time so that we didn't get moderators who were really enthusiastic about the game for 1-3 months and then drop out and never see them again. I wanted players who showed long-term commitment to the game.
The silencing policy came about after the first time I used the moderation tools to silence someone. I don't remember exactly who it was (and hopefully one of the other oldbies will help me remember), but it was someone who was running Hami raids and had a repetitive hero name, tanker, huge body type, cow, Hank? Anyways, he got really pissed off, sent me nasty tells, trash talked in other channels, etc. This incident led to the formation of the silencing guidelines.
If a moderator felt a need to silence one or more people, I asked them to send a tell to the person first, privately explaining that what they were doing was out-of-bounds and ask them politely to stop. If that was not effective (and I can recall only one incident in 8 years that it wasn't), they were to inform the person via the chat channel that what they were doing was improper and ask them to stop. If that failed, then they were silenced or even kicked as needed.
Usually any topic that was directly related to CoH or had some common tie with the game (comics, other MMOs, TT RPGs, etc.) was perfectly fine in the channel. Quite some time ago, there was a period late at night (Eastern) when the conversation would occasionally get risque or even more explicit. Usually just a moderator posting "Badges." in the channel was enough to return people more game-related topics.
However, one night after this had been going on for some time I created the private channel "VB After Dark" or VBAD and several of the more, um, adult chatters were invited in. The MOTD encouraged members to say whatever the heck they wanted, the more taboo, the better. The channel still exists, but I don't think it ever got above 20 members. I'll make the channel public next time I log in. Feel free to use if for Whatever.
OK, so I've never really shared most of these policies/guidelines outside of a few other really, really ancient mods of VB.
In order to become a mod of VB, you had to continuously promote badging or run anything having to do with badges over a long period of time.
I never released this information because I didn't want anyone to try and show-off or intentionally get the job. If you truly were into running TFs for badges, volunteering to help others get badges and so forth, I (or occasionally one of the other long-time mods who knew the guidelines) would promote the person to a moderator.
I felt it had to be over a long enough period of time so that we didn't get moderators who were really enthusiastic about the game for 1-3 months and then drop out and never see them again. I wanted players who showed long-term commitment to the game.
The silencing policy came about after the first time I used the moderation tools to silence someone. I don't remember exactly who it was (and hopefully one of the other oldbies will help me remember), but it was someone who was running Hami raids and had a repetitive hero name, tanker, huge body type, cow, Hank? Anyways, he got really pissed off, sent me nasty tells, trash talked in other channels, etc. This incident led to the formation of the silencing guidelines.
If a moderator felt a need to silence one or more people, I asked them to send a tell to the person first, privately explaining that what they were doing was out-of-bounds and ask them politely to stop. If that was not effective (and I can recall only one incident in 8 years that it wasn't), they were to inform the person via the chat channel that what they were doing was improper and ask them to stop. If that failed, then they were silenced or even kicked as needed.
Usually any topic that was directly related to CoH or had some common tie with the game (comics, other MMOs, TT RPGs, etc.) was perfectly fine in the channel. Quite some time ago, there was a period late at night (Eastern) when the conversation would occasionally get risque or even more explicit. Usually just a moderator posting "Badges." in the channel was enough to return people more game-related topics.
However, one night after this had been going on for some time I created the private channel "VB After Dark" or VBAD and several of the more, um, adult chatters were invited in. The MOTD encouraged members to say whatever the heck they wanted, the more taboo, the better. The channel still exists, but I don't think it ever got above 20 members. I'll make the channel public next time I log in. Feel free to use if for Whatever.
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