Change the Staff system

Moderators are able to temporarily ban somebody for 1 hour max. Moderators are not permitted to ban hackers even if they see them hacking, they have to record them and report them to an SMOD+. Giving a moderator the ability to teleport would be pointless in this situation, as they are not able to ban players for hacking. Invisibility could work, as it would be a lot easier for them to record the hacker without him/her knowing it. The staff system is fine as it is without it, though.

 

There's a reason of why there's a Staff Channel on Brawl's ts.
But I totally agree with you here man!

 

The reason why we have proof is so if they appeal we can show them/revise the video of them hacking to make sure there was no mistake made.

 

We already invented the Moderator rank to solve this problem. Moderator can perm ban after getting proof.

They can do a lot and we used this system for 3 years. JrMod is not supposed to ban hackers, it is supposed to moderate chat and help players.

All the former CTF Moderators were just promoted to staff members on Brawl so of course they are JMods, just like all the other new staff members on Brawl.

How would it make sense to give the JMod only the power to ban for one day but then tell the SMods to ban permanently only because a JMod says a player was hacking?

Overall I can just say that we will promote more Moderators in future to make sure more staff members can ban permanently ingame.

 

We would rather not give JMODs the ability to ban people because that would open even more room for abuse. It is unlikely, but it could happen, and Brawl would rather not risk it. We give the 'stricter' permissions to the SMOD+s, because they are trustworthy enough to handle it.

 

Because CTF normally has at least 60 players on one of its servers, and it's pretty stressful for one moderator having to deal with around 30 people spamming ./gg after every game.

 

I can see where you are all coming from, In some parts I agree, I think Jr. mods should be able to hide their rank. If a hacker saw a Jr. Moderator join the game. They think "Mod = Ban, I'm out of here" In turn makes it not possible to catch down on hackers very well. I just think they should be able to mask the rank so if there is a hacker he won't just log off.

 

"JMods can only kick, can't tp, and need screenshots/video before punishing." Exactly. JMODS need to have a trust built with the higher ups before they get promoted.

All staff on every server are JMODS. Moderators and SMODS have no specific server to moderate - they look at all.

False bans are a bigger deal than you think. They can just appeal" is not an excuse. They should not happen in the first place. That is why the higher ups train us JMODS to handle situations correctly in this stage, so we handle them correctly should we get promoted.

Then we would have to completely revamp the whole heirarchy. And as mentioned above, a trust needs to be built before any abuse/false punishment.

Your 3rd point violates our protocol. Again, as stated above, we are being trained to avoid situations like false punishment, so we let the more trained Mods are SMods handle those situations. On your 4th point, we can just use Teamspeak or Slack, or in game staff chat.

I think the way we have it is fine.
Jmods - Moderate TS, and chat generally, takes care of glitchers. We report hackers via slack, recording a video or teamspeak whenever possible.
Mods - They record a video, ban the player and upload the proof. They are more trusted and experienced.
Smods - Can ban on the spot without proof, they are most experienced.

 

It's not just that. Would you like to handle around 60+ players all by yourself?

 

They are not limited to chat, they are also supposed to take care of glitchers and record/report hackers. Thats how our ranks always worked and you are propably only confused because Moderator meant something different on MCPVP.

As I already stated above, thats where all our staff members start.

We are more careful about promoting players and don't give them power to ban permanently immediately. We first let them go through trial stage and Junior Moderator to get to know them and then we will see if we promote them.

 

We're allowed to kick hackers for an hour when we got proof and it's clear that they hack.

 

I would just allow global junior mods a longer kick time.

 

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This rank you see by my name can: /ban /mute /kick /vanish /tp /tphere etc.

 

He knows that, but he's saying make all global junior mods into mods, or another system be put in place. I think the real problem is there not being enough mods.

 

We are working on promoting JMODs to Mods (don't quote me on that) to cover most of the Brawl servers.
But, we need to be careful about it. The MOD rank is only a few perms short of SMOD.