Things you should know about trial moderator

Congratulations, You have been accepted into the faafnetwork staff. You are currently a trial moderator which means you are tested on how well you do for moderator.

Any further questions may be answered if you ask one of the server managers.


First things first, you must be active on the forums for a number of reasons. You participating on the forums will give you a better chance on being promoted. You have access to most of the threads. Make sure to read the rules on the forums. If you get a ban appeal/abuse report, make sure to respond to it ASAP. Make sure to have your steam account linked to your forum account.

-You must be active on IRC which is a chat for the server and also where we have our staff meetings. Meetings will take place every 2 weeks, Saturday at 12am PST. You can post a topic if you feel that you have a concern that you want to be brought up in the meeting. Attending the meeting is greatly recommended but if you cannot attend, there will be someone who posts a recap of what happened in the staff meeting. You can find that on the forums. If you need help setting up irc, ask cake and he will get you set up.

-It is greatly recommended that you use the staff panel which is where you can see the staff notes and the punishments for players. To punish a player, click on a persons name and click a punishment on the left. This is recommended when punishing people.
bind p "staffpanel"
Just click the key you binded and just click it to bring up the staff panel.

-As a staff member, you have access to the staff chat. This is where all the staff will be talking when you are in game, type !a and say whatever you want,

You can handle RDM reports that are sent in from people.
Few things you should know:
1. Take care of the RDM Reports in the RDM Manager by pressing F8.
2. Check the logs before punishing someone.
3. You may set a report to: waiting, in progress or finished
4. Make sure to set finish to a report when you are done.
5. Ask admin+ if you need help


Things you can do as a trial mod:
1. Ban people 1 day at the most. Type the number 1440 for 1 day
2. You can kick people
3. You can remind people rules. type !remind (player) rule #
4. You can mute/gag people. Type: !gag (player) 1 to make them stop typing and !mute (player) 1 to mute a players mic. To unmute/ungag, type: !gag/mute (player) 0
5. You can add notes on the staff panel if you feel its necessary. No bullshit stuff. Thanks
6. You can roundban people by typing: !roundban (player) #
7. You can slay people if necessary by typing: !slay (player)
8. You have the final say between regular players.
9. You can make a public announcement by typing !pa. Do not abuse this.
10. Use proper ban reasons or your bans will be removed.


Thank you for reading this, we are happy to have you join the staff team.