Improvement on atWar's moderation system.

After compile some experiences I think that the currently Moderation system need an improvement.

There is a growing numbers of trolls nowadays, various issues, and some people blame Moderators for the problems. I think is wrong to blame Mods when they could do nothing - Hence I suggest some suff which can greatly improve the currently Moderation system, so Mods can perform better.


1. The guideliness.

The guideline is very old, and need some rules for punish the new troll's way. Also, if Mods are doing a good job why can't we rely on rules, if Moderators act according to them? (because we think that Mods are exemplar players). An official guide which judge everyone equally should be implemented.

Some new rules should incluide the use of Ban list, posting shocking links, and making other suff to be more clearn. New guideline also should be more easier to read, and be on a game page insteat of a topic page ( conserving, in the end, the credits to sificvoid). Guide should keep most of the suff it have, such as give the Moderator the last word and interpretation. Also, even if the guide judge punish equally, the history of a player can very well alterate his punishment, making is longer as it is already been doing now.


2. Flag buttom.


A small, flag or "report abuse" buttom on everyone's porfile would help a lot. 100 max letters with UBB codes for screenshot. This could very well replace the /report funtion. A player can be reported undefinitery times, and only Moderators can unflag someone. A player who reported the other should be notified by the system that his report got read and/or un-reported. Abuse of this buttom will lead to punish too!.

The /report log will be replaced by the flag log, where Mods are able to see people flagged, people un-flagged, and the actions that a Moderator did ( Mute, ban).

3. A log that count player's active time.

This could not only be useful for Moderators, but also for clans who wanna recluit. However, this is a future investment as logs cant count the time that we already used. How this will work I have two ideas:

1) Work only when you are in-game, and stop when you end your game. Doesnt work when you are on lobby. If you disconect from game it stop counting.

2) It count when you enter to atWar lobby, and only stop when you log out or you are afk.

4. Notifications.

I think the best way to stop a war is with books! Applying this to atWar a player should be notify to read the rules when he log first time on atWar. When Mods mute someone regardless if the player is in-game or no, he should receive a notification.

The " You had be muted for x time" notification we receive in-game should be like this:
" You had be muted for x time. For avoid future punish, read the guideliness" ( link for the guideliness).

The notification which arrives to a player should incluide the same:

" You had be muted for x time. Reason:xxxxxxxxx. For avoid future punish, please read the guideline and be nice with others players. cheers!" ( again, link for the guideliness).

5. Filter.

A filter on global which censore certain words we already know are bad words, such as "fuck", "ass" and so on. AtWar filter should be more special that other's filters. Like this: When you try to send a message with bad words, atWar notify you that it have bad words writted. But if you type again, the message will be sent + the message will also be notified to Mods, so they can check if is an error filter or you posted somenthing bad.

Another filter: You cannot repeat the same text in a period less than 5 seconds.

( I also be noticed certain Mods doesnt have flood control on global. They should!)

6. Reconciler.

So, the Reconciller will be a Moderator, choosed by the community certain time(week?months? year?). He must be very friendly and talk with a player regardless if is a noob OR a troll. This modetator will help when a player have problems with another moderator. All three part must be OK for discuss about the punish ( The player, The Reconciller, The Mod), and reduce, increase, lift or leave the currently punish.

Reconciler must be disposed to talk with The Player, until the Reconciler consider is enough.