I've been playing on Alice for almost 6 months now. Back when I started there were just a few of us. But, now there are many and lots of kids there also. I was wondering, would it be a bad idea to have the mods always a certain color, so we can pick them out? Or, would said mods rather not anyone know.. haha. No, but, really. I don't even know who is a mod or who isn't. I know 3 I think. Lots of new kids needing help now yelling, are there any mods on?? So, yeah.. that's my suggestion.. :3
If I remember correctly, Sk didn't want the mods to be distinguished like they are on other servers with different colors or tags in chat all the time. Maybe like a command or something you can run to show the list of all OPs online? Or a client-side implementation that gives a hotkey (like SHIFT+TAB?) you can press to show like the playerlist but with special moderator tags next to moderators.
For me, keeping mod's "unknown" (or at least non recognizable) makes'em in a better position with players, so that if you want to cheat, you don't think any mod's online, and finally there was a mod, and so you've been caught even before to grief the server with your cheats!
Hmm, that's a good idea! Maybe he can make the feature only accessible for players older than an x amount of time?
no, not for catching griefers, for helping people. It was just a thought. I know as a player I would like it. All the older people know who most mods are, but, it's the noobs that need help and maybe would like to know even more.
If they'd like to know even more, then ask a regular player. You don't need to be a mod to help a player out (unless it needs their special perms), seriously. I see too much of "Any mods online???" and shortly after "Can a mod tell me why my pump isn't working???"
Yea, too many players just want a moderator to help them with the mods... which is not something we need to do, but do (sometimes) nonetheless. SK's reasoning behind the chat colors is so that we, as moderators, can have fun playing too.
The first thing I asked, when I logged on the first time, was: "What are the colors in the chat meaning ?" sk89q answered: "Colors are here to make the chat clear. In the chat everyone should look equal."
I think thats unnecessarly complicated here. if new ppl are on and need help they ask in chat, and that good. since we have the highlighting-ding-thing (hehe) i set the word moderator as ding. (you might see that the word mod would perma-ding me). until now they got the help, they needed or deserved. Like chaeris said, its also kinda good, that mods are somewhat unknown- undercover . also mods are just players, too.
ok.. I understand. I was just thinking the new kids, (children) would like it. But, I see all your points of view here now.
i also yee your point. but it would simply be too easy. also i dont want to end up as nanny. i think you know what i'm ttalking about
I did play on one server once that had mod one color in chat. But, when they were Off duty they were other colors. But, this is just more complicated than anything really. I just thought it was nice as we didn't feel like we were disturbing the mod in the mod color cause they were "on duty" and the other mods could just ignore chat and play like a player. But, yes Dem.. everyone knows you are the baby sitter on the server. But, that's not a bad thing. Being a baby sitter myself, we know that everyone needs them to keep the kids all quiet and busy. LOL. Works out well.
I have also found that complete randomization can be disorienting at times but I like it better that the way other sever make chats too formal, you don't necessarily need a way to know who the mods are because of the chat but maybe if there was just a /moderators command to list who the mods are.
