Mod Audit

[godsoffortune]

Mod Audit



Mod Communication Improvement
Since the start of the game, the primary method of communication among the moderators was Plurk. A single, new private plurk was made every month to contain our discussions. This process started to break down as we added List Mods - who we were trying to keep as blind as possible to metaplot discussions - and NPC Players - who we were trying to not overwhelm with List-related chatter, while also keeping them available for Main Mods and List Mods to ping. This necessitated the Main Mods to serve as go-betweens for the List Mods to the NPCs, since at the time we were running 3 separate private plurks: one for Main Mods, one for NPC Mods, and one for List Mods. Very quickly, we realized that this way was not going to work long-term, as we tried to make new plurks each month so they didn't drift too far back on people's timelines.

Since early February, as we trained up our new List Mods, we've trialed a new method: using the game's Discord server with proper roles and channels set up, which you can see in a screencap here. This gave us many benefits, but from a time perspective it gave us two big ones:

1. Removed the extra delay in simple communication between List Mods and NPC Mods while retaining their separate channels to isolate discussion
   
2. Removed an entire Main Mod task of making new private plurks each month just to coordinate mod efforts

Lists Shift
With our List Mods getting trained up and this new communication setup, we've been able to shift the Locations and Shinki Spells over to their jurisdiction. This means that we moved the pages to be hosted on the List account. If you left a comment on the old pages and the comment isn't reflected on the new pages yet, we do not need you to comment again.

All other game pages should have had their Locations and Shinki Spell links updated. If you find a link that didn't get updated, we will happily fix it if we are notified.

Additionally, they are working to clean up our tags on both thefarshore and thenearshore

Mod Audit Deadline
Now that we've reached some stability amongst the mod team in terms of communication and responsibilities, we are initiating an audit on our mod inboxes. If you have not received an expected response within the next 2 days, then we are truly sorry to have lost the comment, message, or email. We invite you at that time to please ask us again.

Once the Audit has been completed and we've had a few days to handle any requests that slipped through the cracks, plus adjust any processes as a result of that, we'll have a follow-up State of the Game announcement.



Thank you very much for supporting our transition efforts,
- The Far Shore Mod Team

Comments

[sassywelshcatgirl]

Does this apply to NPC threads too?

[godsoffortune]

It applies to the NPCs that were collectively being played by the GodsOfFortune account rather than a dedicated account/inbox.

[abgrund]

This is very late please forgive me but: There seems to be a HTML unclosed div tag or something similar on the Locations page, under the Northeastern District. Thanatos' temple is indented, not sure if that's intentional.

[godsoffortune]

Thank you for pointing that out! It's been corrected!