Moderation Guidelines

New mods: talk to Fazaden on Mumble for an in-depth tutorial on protecting areas (among other things).

Remember that this is just a guideline, and you will often have to make your own judgments - so please be responsible. Remember that you have been given these powers because we trust you. If we catch you misusing any of them, we will have to strip you of your powers, and it is unlikely you will be considered in the future for becoming a mod or admin again.

Useful Plugins

WorldGuard: Building Protection

Mods have the power to protect users’ creations. To protect something, you have to imagine a box surrounding the entire structure. You select a corner, and the opposite corner (e.g. top left back and bottom right front) by left- and right-clicking with a wooden shovel (left click for first corner, right for second). It is often good to have the protectee place blocks at each of these corners to reduce miscommunication. The chat box should say something along the lines of "First point selected; Second point selected" in purple text when you select the points. Then, type:

/region define name_of_area name_of_owner

To add someone else (to a protected area, type:

/region addmember name_of_area username1

To add multiple people at once, type:

/region addmember name_of_area username1 username2 username3 ...

Here is the full guide to protecting areas.

Warning: The wooden shovel can be a very powerful tool, as it allows you to select millions of blocks if you aren't careful. After you select the second point of an area, a number will pop up in parenthesis that shows the number of blocks in the selected area. For the majority of builds, this will be well under 100,000. Anything over one million blocks is too big; you likely had one corner left over from a previous protection. A quick way to reset a selection is to left click and right click on the same block.

MCCondom: Grief Detection

From time to time, you will see red messages pop up stating: Username is suspiciously deleting blocks.

When this happens, type /vanish to turn invisible, then /tp to the person in question. Usually the person is just working on their own house, but it is always worth it to check.

If they aren't griefing, type /grey username to make alerts for that person turn green. It's a way of letting the other mods know that the user has been checked out.

BigBrother: Rolling Back Griefing

This site shows the full guide to BigBrother, use it with care. It is generally a good idea to check the number and type of edits with /bb here in various radii, before performing any rollback.

Mod Requests

We have a mod request feature, where users can ask for staff help, and it is organized into a handy list for us. No one should abuse the request feature (this includes both staff and users!). To check for any pending requests, type:

"⁄check"

To view a specific request:

"/check-id [request_number]"

To claim a request to prevent mods stepping on each others' toes, type:

"/claim [request_number]"

To unclaim a request type:

"/unclaim [request_number]"

Once you have completed a request, type:

"⁄done [request_number] [message_if_you_want_one]"

Most often, you will be asked to place water or lava, or to report griefing. On Creative, people will also ask for you to protect their buildings.

If a player is offline you can teleport using:

"/tp-id [request_number]"

Dealing with Griefers

Issuing Warnings and the Server Rules: We have several rules in place to ensure that there is a friendly and welcoming environment for all players on the server. If you see anyone breaking any of the rules, confront them through the in-game chat. They may not notice the message you send, so if you want, use the "⁄msg [username] [message]" command, as this makes incoming messages much more obvious. If they still do not respond, you have to make the decision to either ⁄kick them or ⁄ban them.

Griefing of any kind will not be tolerated on the server. If you see anyone destroying any work which does not belong to them, confront them straight away. Ask them what they are doing and why they are doing it. There may be cases where they are destroying things for other people. If you are unsure if they have permission or not, tell them to stop and ask the owner to place a sign⁄let staff know that the user is allowed to destroy that building. Only then, can they continue to destroy that building.

Placing any of the banned blocks is prohibited. No one, other than staff should be able to spawn and place banned items. You will get a grey message in chat when someone acquires and⁄or places banned items. You can use the ⁄vanish command to become invisible and ⁄tp to them to see what they are up to. Most of the time, its people using buckets to try and place water or something. Remind them that they cannot use these items, and if they need these items to ask staff in the future. If people continue to (attempt to) place banned blocks after you have warned them you can ⁄ban them. If you see people actually placing these blocks (and they don’t disappear) they are using an inventory editor and⁄or a hacked client. This is strictly against the rules, and you should issue a ⁄ban straight away. If you see people flying, instead of banning them straight away, issue a warning, telling them to stop using a hacked client. If they don’t oblige, ⁄ban them.

Racism and any other abuse toward any specific user will result in a instant, normally permanent ban. This includes both chat and through signs. Obviously you will have to decide whether it is a harmless joke, or actual abuse, but its normally pretty easy to distinguish between the two.

Players should respect and obey what staff ask of them. If a player blatantly disregards what you are telling them, ⁄kick them with a warning. At the same time, remember that you are not above the rules - you should not berate other players. ⁄kick & ⁄ban

Mods have the power to ⁄kick players and ⁄ban players who are breaking rules. Obviously, you must decide whether the offense warrants a warning (⁄kick) or a ⁄ban. These guidelines should help you make a decision.

Firstly, remember to give a message when you ⁄kick someone. They will see the message when they are kicked, and so it serves as a great way to get the message across that they are doing something wrong. To do this, type:

"⁄kick [player_name] [reason_for_kick]"

When someone is banned using the ⁄ban command, we log who issued the ban, and what reason was used for the ban. You should always state a reason why you ⁄ban someone. Do this by:

"⁄ban [player_name] [reason_for_ban]"

Also, you can also let them know they can appeal their ban at nerd.nu/forum in the reason, if you feel that they deserve a second chance later on. Remember that we will give almost everyone a second chance, where possible.

Warning: To avoid confusion, please use the person's exact name when banning someone. (i.e. AlLnAtuRalX is better than allnaturalx) If problems happen, simply /unban the person and re-ban them using the correct case.

If you see anyone using a hacked client (flying etc) you should ban them straight away with a message telling them to stop using it.

Server-specific Roles

Creative

• Warps:

Only set warps to significant structures - we don’t want to fill the list of warps with peoples small houses and stuff. It should be reserved for unique creations or very impressive builds. Also, make sure you don’t set warps to areas which already have warps close by.

To set a warp, stand and face the direction of where the warp should be, and type:

"⁄setwarp [warp_name]"

Admins can use more powerful worldEdit commands for operations such as replacing blocks, copy/pasting, and deleting areas. Admins are not to dig large areas out for anyone - all digging must be done by hand. They can only edit areas that users have already manipulated. Also, try and not to create huge areas of lava or water, as this will stress the server too much.

Banned Blocks: All staff members can spawn banned items. Staff can place banned items for users if they have a legitimate reason for them. Once again, try and not place too many water or lava blocks (especially water⁄lava falls) for the sake of the server’s performance.

• Day/Night Cycles: /time

Users on creative typically ask for daylight as soon as night begins to fall. Type /time day to make it daytime once again.

Some users will occasionally request night-time to view their creations in a different light. /time night will accomplish this.

Do NOT use this command on Survival or PvE.

• Super Pickaxe:

Type // in chat to begin using the Super Pickaxe. While holding any pickaxe, any clicked block will immediately vanish without leaving anything behind. This should only be used to delete spammed blocks.

Survival

Server Rules:

Along with the standard "no harassment through chat or signs" rules there are some others:

If you see someone spawning loads of items, have doubts about how they got a lot of items, or see them in possession of unobtainable items, you should confront them, and if not convinced, ban them. Also, let an admin know straight away, as we can look through their inventory for other items, which could help see if they are lying or not.

We have a no griefing policy on this server too. Regardless of it being a PvP or PvE environment, players are not allowed to destroy or modify anyone else’s property in any way. If you see anyone doing this, confront them, and ban them if they carry on after a warning.

In the immediate region around spawn, players are not allowed to harm or kill anyone in this area. If you see anyone trying to do any of these, issue a warning, and if they persist, ban them. This includes, but is not limited to: lava dumping, cactus trapping and sand⁄gravel dropping. Players are also not permitted to destroy any buildings in this area.

Outside of spawn: Almost anything goes here, though players are not allowed to destroy other peoples buildings.

Once again, stealing from locked chests is not allowed (circumventing lwc) and should result in a ban.

Mod Powers: Mods have the power to ⁄tp, ⁄tphere, ⁄kick, and ⁄ban,and /vanish.

Neither admins, nor mods, should abuse any of their powers. This includes doing none of the following unless for moderation purposes:

• No using ⁄tp to get around to places quickly because you don’t feel like walking.
• No tp’ing other players to anywhere.
• No killing someone in ⁄god mode or ⁄vanish mode.

If a user asks for banned items, look in the chest at spawn, behind the rules board.

PvE

Rules:

The rules on PVE are similar to Survival.

Extra rules are:

Killing dogs is considered as being a dick.

No player traps and dispensers with arrows.

Mods have access to /god for invincibility.

As with survival, moderators cannot spawn their own items. If a user asks for water, lava, or the like, go to spawn and retrieve them from the signs at the mod cave.

Other Helpful Commands

/up [height] - This command sends you a specified number blocks above the ground, and places a glass block at your feet. This is very handy for protecting oddly-shaped regions.

/broadcast [message]- This should only be used to inform the userbase of something important. Do not use it to communicate with specific users, or for jokes or anything else. 99% of the time, you will not need to use this feature.

/tphere player_name - teleports a player to you

/tpoverride(here) player_name - overrides tptoggle

/tpo and /tpohere also overrides tptoggle.

/vanish - makes you invisible - do it again to become visible

/god - makes you invincible(ask an Admin for this on Survival)

/region define name_of_protection username - creates a protected area

/region - lists available cuboid commands you can use

/preview player_name - view a players inventory

/restore - restore your inventory after peeking at someone elses.

/mod-broadcast - Shows a broadcast message to all mods

/kit mod - Spawns mod tools, which vary on each server.

/lookup player - See if a player has bans on other mcbans servers.

No compass? /jump and /thru works too.