Please no witch hunts. I have been getting a lot of messages of other staff members feeling stressed because other staff have been telling them if they don't do their job, they will get demoted.
Staff are volunteers. They are not paid. Some of them apply to help, some of them apply for the pure joy of having powers. I cannot tell the difference unless it's super obvious at first. Staff don't have a required amount of sits to go to Staff are also players, they will play the game while they do sits The only purpose of staff is to keep the server clean
Of course if you don't want to help in the slightest then I will just demote you. It's not like I am going to ban you or something. It's just that.. don't apply if you don't want to help. You waste everyone's time and you make our server's staff team look like a joke.
I say this so many times but it's not so much the staff but the players and my fault for the insane amount of sits. Players ask for sits, not mods. Mods just handle them.
Rules are convoluted and there is just way too many of them. I am planning to revamp rules in the near future. In all honesty, maybe less rules would = less sits.
Player 1 breaks a rule -> Player 2 calls for an admin -> Admin goes to player 2 -> Admin listens to Player 2 -> Admin brings Player 1 -> Admin listens to player 1 -> Player2 and Player1 fight about the problem -> Admin looks into logs -> Admin either finds something in the logs or doesnt -> Player 1 and player 2 are still fighting -> Admin makes the decision to warn player 1 for some reason. This process can take anywhere from 60 seconds - 5 minutes.
Repeat this whole process 2 more times for player 2 and you will have him banned for 24 hours. Great. I tell my staff to ditch the warning and go the kicking and banning since that solves problems. Even if the ban is for 1 - 8 hours, it saves you so much time + that player may never return. You only ever warn players for sincere mistakes, which even at that point you should just give them a verbal warning.
When a process like this has to be taken up every 1 - 2 minutes and even every 15 - 45 seconds it puts a LOT of stress on the staff. Especially when the player is spamming admin chat "ADMIN", "ADMIN", "ADMIN WHAT THE FUCK", "ADMIN YOU LAzZY SAK OF SHIT I WILL FUKIN REPORT U", "FUK YOU ADMIN I NEED U NOW", "ADMINN OMG". (This is a kind of player that needs a 5 hour ban BTW)
If you want a reality check if a staff member does sits, PM me. I can look it up really easily.
TL: DR Don't witch hunt. PM me if you want me to check on logs or if a staff member is doing sits. Recording is great but don't make everyone feel like they are being watched. This is a Gmod server not a prison for mods
Im not down For witch hunts i dont agree with them i feel like if they are going to be staff they should want to help and dont be forced to.