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Administators
By: Eduard Date: December 26, 2012, 6:54 pm
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I have been thinking about writing this for a while now since
there is a lot of discussion about this and I feel like I should
inform the players about it. This is mostly a general subject I
want to discuss so that people wont need to be confused and ask
questions about this or get mad because of a certain behavior.
Admins are also known as Administrators or Staff members, wich
are ranked by Level 0 through 5:
L0 - Trial Staff.
This is the rank you will obtain once you have first joined the
staff team. You will receive access to the staff board on the
forum, the staff channel on the IRC and receive a + (also known
as voice) next to your name on the #CIT channel on our IRC
server. Trial admins usually get promoted to Level 1 between 30
and 60 days.
L1 - New Staff.
This is the rank you gain after passing your trial. You are now
officially part of the team and are known as a New staff member.
No new privileges come with this but you enjoy the feeling you
have passed your trial.
L2 - Trained Staff.
After you have proven to be trustworthy and deserve a promotion
as a L1 you will gain this rank. You will receive access to a
few new administrative tools such as the jetpack and the ability
to ban people.
L3 - Trusted Staff.
This is a rank that is harder to gain than the previous ranks.
Trusted staff get access to our FTP logs containing a wide array
of ingame information (like every single money transfer) they
can add manual bans, remove any ban and access whois and whowas.
L4 - High Staff.
After a long period of doing a great job and contributing you
may be promoted to L4. This rank is very hard to earn and you
can be proud of yourself if you manage to achieve this. You will
be given acess to a special IRC channel only available to L4 and
L5 staff members and receive the Launch Codes
HTML http://cit2.net/forum/index.php?topic=15.msg348632#msg348632.
L5 - Head Staff.
This rank is highly exceptional and has only been reached by 5
people in the entire history of CIT (ignoring the 3 founders):
Cheeze, Meursault, Seeker, Jaeger and Gus. These people have
full acess to every ingame tool for admins and have ownership
rights of all official IRC channels. Holding this rank is a
great privilege considering you are one of the head admins.
Note: The only people who have access to the physcal server are
Arran and Cheeze. They do the server maintenance so do not
contact any other L5 staff members about fixing bugs.
[center]Next up: admin behavior.[/center]
As you probably noticed admins sometimes blatently ignore
players or respond rude to them when they ask questions. you
have to understand that admins are very busy most of the time
and dont always have time to deal with your requests and needs.
For example, if people want to organise a car show they pick a
random staff member to ask for help. This way they attempt to
receive help with something from an admin that may be busy[and
then become upset when the admin does not want to help them.
Instead of contacting a random admin they should check the Staff
roster
HTML http://cit2.net/forum/index.php?topic=2279.0
and find an Event
Manager to help them, whos staff duty it is to organise or help
people organise events.
So, when you need help with something, find an admin that is
most suitable to help you with your problem. If it is a general
problem, ask in the support chat because there might be a player
who can answer your problem.
Adminning is more than constantly running from one person to
another to help him or her. there are many things our staff
members do, wich include but are not limited to:
- Engage in discussions on the #staff channel on IRC where
admins ask the opinions of eachother or we discuss events.
- Deal with all of the /report messages that are received
in-game.
- Moderate various forum boards wich they are assigned to.
- Deal with the combat log and warp to people to ask them why
they killed X person.
- Deal with people who drive to you and ask questions or want
you to follow them
- Deal with all of the SMS questions and help requests we
receive there.
- Deal with all private messages we receive on the forum and
IRC.
- Deal with personal duties such as Development and running the
official law teams.
As you can see admins have a lot of stuff to do just because
they are part of the CIT team. And besides that they have to
make time to enjoy the game aswell! I hope that this makes you
understand that admins simply do not have time to help you at
all times or are willing to have a chat.
As for being rude, as you can see in the above our staff members
are constantly being reminded of their duties and this may
stress them out. So for example, if somebody is taking part in a
discussion on #staff, is dealing with all of the /report
messages that come in and are trying to answer SMS questions and
you, a player, come up to him and ask him questions like "hey,
what's up" "wanna drive with me?" "let's organise a party!" and
he calls you an idiot or tells you to gtfo, please understand
that this person may be doing so many things at once that he
simply gets annoyed if anything else comes up. keep in mind that
you may be punished for obstructing staff if you repeatedly
annoy admins.
[center]Next up: admins lacking their duties.[/center]
Admins have many duties and sometimes cant deal with all of
them. I will use myself as an example in this subject since I am
one of them.
I myself used to be in charge of forum management and this was
most specifically adding group subforums. Adding these is a very
lengthy process and you often spend over an hour dealing with
only 5 requests because of all the steps you need to go through.
Because I want to do the work all at once ( I need to open a lot
of stuff and programs to check so it's easier to do it all at
once instead of opening these every time) Because there are
usually 10-20 subforum requests I need to find a few hours of
time to complete them, wich is hard because I have a personal
life aswell (I work and go to college).
This subject is not about me trying to find some excuse for not
doing my duties though, I simply want to explain why these take
so long. Almost everything that admins do takes time and we need
to have time to do it.
What I mostly want to note is the way people reply to admins
dont do their duties fast enough in their eyes. I have received
various PMs where people flamed me and called me names just
because I didnt add their subforums. If you think a threatening
message or stuff such as "Dennis is too lazy to add subforums",
"Dennis wont add it because he doesnt like our group" and
"Dennis just sucks and only helps his friends" will speed up the
process you couldnt be more wrong. I wont ban you for saying
small things like this but I will lose some respect I have for
you and if you manage to get this to 0 dont expect anything from
me anymore.
Basically what I am trying to say with this topic: cut us some
slack!
Admins are still normal people (believe it or not!) who help out
on CIT because they want to help people, many dont understand
that this is completely voluntarily (admins dont even get paid!)
and people should respect the fact that we invest time we could
spend playing in managing the most visited server on this entire
game. So if you see an admin just driving arround, dont bother
him or complain that he's not doing his job because he might
have been working for 6 hours straight and is just taking a
short break.
Credits to AB-47 for the following:
[center]Becoming a Staff Member[/center]
Just a few points about becoming a staff member. And just to let
you know being a staff member is a big responsibility. Being a
staff member would allow you to do such things to 'help' the
server keeping 'rule-breakers' away, them being punished would
be, so they don't try doing it again. And if they get punished
once or twice, maybe thrice they should be aware it'll get them
punished once again and effect they're punish-log. Becoming a
staff member isn't something to relax and enjoy, you should be
capable of doing you're job correctly and ensure there aren't no
spammers, flamers, DM'ers and etc.
[center]Requirements for Becoming a Staff Member[/center]
For becoming a staff member you should be able to follow all
server rules and obey them with respect, you should be capable
of understanding English to the finest and not using a
translator to co-operate. You should be able to cope with the
tasks you've been given by a higher staff member and you should
be able to respect what has been laid down in-front of you to
start of with. You should be known as a 'Regular Community
Member,' and being so having to be a community member would be
such and such in the next step.
[center]Becoming a 'Regular Community Member.'[/center]
You becoming a 'Regular Community Member,' would take effort in
what you do and how you post, including understanding correct
English, understanding the correct uses of such grammar,
understanding where to place certain punctuations. You should
post meaningful sentences in you're posts, you should be honest
with what you wrote and not just copying some next crap from the
Wikipedia or such, however you can quote it to show people
you're dedication or opinions. Also the main thing not to do is
to ask for it or beg to be people how to become one.
[center]What you 'Must' and 'Must Not' do to become a staff
member.[/center]
To become a staff member you should be already aware of the
rules and following them with full aspects, you shouldn't be a
rule-breaker and you should avoid being watched by Forum
Moderators or a staff member. You should answer people with a
fine mannered tone especially if it's someone such as a staff
member to avoid causes of bad reputation or them denying a
recommendatory (The act of recommending) you didn't know about.
You must not brake any server / forum rules and maintain you're
standard of helping players communicating with the rest of the
players.
[center]A short list of bullet-points that you should
follow.[/center]
[list]
[li]Shouldn't annoy staff member about anything, be
patient.[/li]
[li]Shouldn't bug people or ask them how did they achieve
something.[/li]
[li]Shouldn't pm high staff member such as Arran if it's
something minor and other staff can handle.[/li]
[li]Shouldn't ignore the server/forum rules.[/li]
[li]Should take his/her job seriously.[/li]
[li]Should help whenever he/she can and co-operate with the
staff team.[/li]
[li]Should always listen to higher staff members or the people
who are correct.[/li]
[li]Should never ever abuse his/her powers to gain something in
return or to punish whenever you fee like.[/li]
[li]Should never flame staff members, nor any other player.[/li]
[li]Should respect what he/she is and how the staff members tell
you how to be one.[/li]
[/list]
[hr]
[center]Forum Rules + Explanations[/center]
#1 - Using you're brain: Post Common sense facts, explanations
etc. If you got nothing to say don't say it.
#2 - Posting Correctly: Don't post non-honest/incorrect
information.
#3 - Illegal Posting: Don't post illegal content such as;
Torrents and such also including copyright infringing content.
#4 - Insulting: Do not flame, call bad names, or be nasty to
anyone.
#5 - Non-Appropriate content: Don't post anything such related
as Nasty or Pornographic content here.
#6 - Purposeless Posts: Don't post off-topic not worth
reading/non-constructive posts.
#7 - Correct Topics: Place the correct topics in the correct
places such as a poll needed topic, in voting.
#8 - Trolling: Don't act trollish in the ways of posting idiotic
text or purpose sarcasm which is childish.
#9 - Duplicate Posting: Don't post things that have already been
posted.
#10 - Impersonation: Do not impersonate people including using
custom titles saying: Junior Community Member.
#11 - Requesting: Don't request forum statuses, you'd get a JCM,
RCM or SCM when you deserve it.
#12 - Spam: Do not post larger, bold senseless posts just to
attract attention, it'll attract a mute.
#13 - Bumping Topics: Don't post on topics that haven't been
posted after a month or so which isn't necessary.
#14 - Names: You're forum names and IG names must be suitable
and not some junk like:
†→♣ŞŁіćķŁіķ
;èÂFŌХ♣←
or so.
#15 - Admin Complaints: Don't make an admin complaint when it's
blatantly invalid.
#16 - Being a Fool: Don't blatantly ask for a mute in ways of
troll, or request removing you're P-log Punishments, appeal it.
#17 - Ban Appeals: Don't post there if you're not involved in
it.
#18 - Personal Messages: Don't PM staff members about Irrelevant
information, or something they don't prefer.
#19 - Server Development posting: Post more than just a 2 word
answer, not such things like "+1 nice idea" Explain more.
#20 - Ban Appeals: Post ban appeals in the correct format.
#21 - General Discussion topics: Post a relevant topic in
general discussion such that doesn't fit into other boards.
#22 - Double Posting: Don't post a post one after you're
previous, simply modify it.
#23 - Identity: Don't constantly change you're name to prevent
people knowing who you are.
#24 - Religion: Anything related to religion isn't allowed, any
discussion or such.
#25 - Requesting Topic Locks: Don't request topic locks of topic
you did not make.
#26 - Server Development: When making a suggestion, organise it
and add more information, explain you're suggestion.
#27 - Account Sharing: You are not allowed to share you're
account with anyone whatsoever.
#28 - Sharing Information: Don't share information from cit2.net
to another forum without permission.
#29 - Chatbox: Don't brake any rules that comply with forum
rules in the chatbox, nor posting such trollish or racist info.
These above rules and explanations aren't much more to explain
if you understand it more, it's similarly copying it from the
original forums rules that could be found here
HTML http://cit2.net/forum/index.php?topic=3743.0.
Braking any forum
rules will result in a Forum Warning, Mute or Ban.
[hr]
[center] In-game rules + Explanations[/center]
1. Do not deathmatch. - Don't attack somebody or even aim a gun
at somebody for no reason, do not revenge kill and don't throw
grenades in busy places like the BR/DFR area.
2. Listen to server staff. - Server staff can be indentified by
a [CIT] tag and are here to players.
3. Do not annoy staff members, do not stand near them and do not
honk at them.
4. Do not cheat, exploit bugs or scam players - Cheating is
defined as an unfair advantage.
5. Do not purposefully evade ingame situations or admins by
disconnecting.
6. Do not spam. - Press J if you need to contact an admin. All
admins start with [CIT]
7. Do not request an unfair advantage from a member of staff or
ask for admin.
8. Play nice, don't flame and don't troll - Things can be much
more enjoyable for everybody then.
9. To play on this server you must be able to understand English
or at least follow the rules.
10. Do not speak about other servers/other GTA multiplayer mods
or anything else to provoke people.
11. Selling accounts, arrests, weapons or anything else that
isn't a guaranteed transfer is not permitted and if a player
scams you that is your fault for breaking this rule.
12. Do not stand around outside a busy place like a police
station or hospital.
13. Speak English in main and team chat.
14. Don't ask for help in the support channel if it's not CIT
server related.
15. Do not impersonate a player or a group.
16. Do not use a stupid/spam/inappropriate name.
17. Conduct yourself. - Driving on the right side of the road,
don't purposely crash.
Copied From IG CIT. Braking any server rules will result in a
Punishment or Ban.
[hr]
Becoming a staff member is a big responsibility, and knowing
most of these things would guide you through to becoming a staff
member, although not guaranteed that you'd be a staff member,
depends on what people think about you, all you got to do is be
yourself and support people and show you deserve this. This is
just something to help you a bit, a few tips and all, although
I'm no pro at it I'd still like to help.
Thanks for reading, hope I could help, good luck ;).
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