Azande Posted June 24, 2020 Posted June 24, 2020 This was posted in the new Aurora Lore Discord's Rules. Personally, as this discord is being entirely moderated by Aurora Lorestaff, for Aurora's community, to discuss Aurora lore, I think there is absolutely no reason that this discord should be out of the oversight of the actual staff team and Head Staff. All this does is give Lorestaff a zone in which they may break regular Aurora rules without punishment, and could include being rude/mean/dismissive to community members - which is not conduct we should encourage from staff (as we already have enough of this). I am not proposing that the AdminMod Team actively moderate this discord, but rather that there be the following: - Aurora Mods and Admins may request and be given a moderator role in the Lore Discord IF they want it. - Allow all actions by players or staff in this discord that break rules to be reported via the forum staff complaints and player complaints if not handled in the discord at the time. (This is for transparency, and to prevent Lorestaff from simply hiding away complaints in their DMs to pretend they don't exist) - In such a complaint, AdminMod Team would have decision regarding the offending staff or player's place in the community, the LoreHeads would still have full decision on whom is and is not banned in their discord, maintaining some autonomy. I have seen bullying in almost every large Aurora offshoot discord that brings in a large amount of players but isn't moderated by our staff team. The independent lore discords did not have much of this because they were a smaller collection of people of whom usually had similar interests in their species. I think having a staff run discord immune from Admin oversight is simply poor form at this stage of our community's life.
kyres1 Posted June 24, 2020 Posted June 24, 2020 13 minutes ago, Azande said: All this does is give Lorestaff a zone in which they may break regular Aurora rules without punishment, and could include being rude/mean/dismissive to community members - which is not conduct we should encourage from staff (as we already have enough of this). See - Quote This is simply an extension, and consolidation of the lore discords that previously existed. Nothing has changed. Lore heads are in charge of a lore discord. Head devs and head admins are above us anyway, so there is always a higher rank all the way up until you hit Skull and Arrow. What the point of this is is to prevent people from misinterpreting who to contact - for issues regarding management of the discord which this posts outlines could occur, read - Quote If you have an issue with the management of this discord, relay these issues to loremasters. Other head staff will just ignore you. If an issue with the management of Species discords somehow made its way to me and Mofo (which, it literally never has barring one scenario which extended far, far above and beyond the species discord) we are fully capable of handling it from there without needing to trouble administrators. Failing this, we are capable of contacting administrators or the head staff above us - because we're a team. Speaking of teams, this team has definitive leaders, and previously the lore discords completely lacked these leaders (and now have them) to exercise any sort of authority or advice or otherwise to ensure people do not go on babyrage rampages against a player.
Azande Posted June 24, 2020 Author Posted June 24, 2020 @kyres1 If all of this is the case, I think a disclaimer in the rules channel that says: "Actions here requiring administrative action from the Lore Team may be referred to the Aurora Administration Team, and possibly lead to punishment in the overall Aurora Community as well."
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