Staff Structure

Team Leaders

If you have questions, please don't hesitate to PM any of our staff members.
Primary Staff Teams and Team Leader Admins are as follows:

• Prime Administrator: Reverend Fox (AD-TL)

• Wiki Moderators
  • Team Leader Admin: [VACANT] (WM-TL)

• Forum Moderators
  • Team Leader Admin: ExistentialGrey89 (FM-TL)

• Security Team
  • Team Leader Admin: ExistentialGrey89 (SEC-TL)

• Media Division
  • Team Leader Admin: ExistentialGrey89 (MD-TL)

• Policy Explorers
  • Team Leader Admin: Reverend Fox (PE-TL)

• Harassment Team
  • Team Leader Admin: Reverend Fox (HT-TL)

Please refer to our Main Policies Page for our full list of policies and rules.

Levels of Staff

There are a few levels of staff:

• Quarter-Staff — A Quarter-Staffer is someone picked by a TL Admin to act as "Junior Staff."
  • Duties:
    • Monitoring activity and reporting discrepancies to upper-staffers.
    • Making sure the day-to-day functions of the site are running smoothly in regards to his or her respective Team.
  • Note: Quarter-Staffers can be promoted to Half-Staff. The process requres review by at least three TL Admins.

• Half-Staff — A Half-Staffer is, by all accounts, a Half-Moderator.
  • Duties:
    • Half-Staff share the same duties as Quarter-Staff with a few exceptions. This level of Staff has the power to call Stops in forum discussions and Rewrites for Wiki pages.
    • Voting on Deletions: This level of Wiki Staff is able to vote on Page Deletions.
    • Staff Posting: This level of Wiki and Forum Staff is allowed to make "Staff Posts." The protocol is to title a comment on or reply to a post (either in the Forums [Forum Moderators] or in the Per-Page Discussion [Forum/Wiki Moderators]) with "Staff Post - ", and follow this with either "Open," "Closed," "Stop," or "Vote."
    • Staff Posting: This level of Disciplinary Staff is allowed to make "Staff Post - Warning." This Staff Post may be made without direct consent from, but must always be followed up with, the (TL-DA) along with a brief Incident Report posted to either Eyes-On or Non-Disciplinary, depending on situation. [If the offence is committed in an Article or on a Page, the Warning must be placed in the Per-Page Discussion section for that Article or Page.
  • It is at this point that a Staff Member becomes a member of the Admin Site Command Center¹.

• Full-Staff
  • These are the Non-Administrative Team Leaders. They will oversee the functions of the SubTeams themselves, and are considered Moderators.
  • Duties:
    • Reporting of possible rule or policy violations to their respective TL Admin.
      • Posting requires quoted text from the offending post, either Forum or Wiki, and a link to that thread or page, along with a brief assessment of the situation.
    • Staff Posting: This level of Disciplinary Staff is allowed to make "Staff Post - Official Warning." The protocol for posting is as above, but must be checked through Policy. Any questions regarding the Warning Considerations should be referred to Policy Enforcement.
      • At the time of the Official Warning, a PM is to be sent to the offending user by (FS-DA) telling the user, in no specific language, to either knock it off or risk getting banned².

• Team Leader Admins
  • These are the Administrative Team Leaders. They lead the Primary Teams.
    • They are your Admins.
    • Don't piss them off.
    • They have hot-pink BanHammers³.

A Note on Staff Posting
"Staff Post - Open" is to be used when further discussion on a topic or an issue would be useful in some way.
"Staff Post - Closed" is to be used when further discussion on a topic or an issue would be detrimental in some way.
"Staff Post - Stop" is to be used when a conversation is getting out of hand.
"Staff Post - Vote" is to be used when a vote is required by Half-Staff or above.
"Staff Post - Deletion Vote" is to be used for Admin Voting regarding Deletions. (See Deletions Policy.)
"Staff Post - Warning" is to be used as an Unofficial Warning in conjunction with a "Stop," especially if the user in question displays no intention of doing so.
"Staff Post - Official Warning" is to be used as an Official Warning to warn a user that his or her behavior is becoming unacceptable.

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Core Admins

Core Administrators

• Reverend Fox — Prime
• ExistentialGrey89

Wiki Moderators

Wiki Moderators

• Team Leader Admin: [VACANT] (WM-TL)
  • "SPAG Nazis" (WM-SPAGN)
    • Pretty self explanatory. This division handles grammar and spelling cleanup. These are the folk who carry the dustpans and trail behind the folk creating and editing wiki pages.
  • "Canon Fodder" (WM-CF)
    • This division handles the search for and repair of continuity and lore errors in wiki pages.
  • "Statler & Waldorf" (WM-SW)
    • The Wiki Review & Critique team. Should be strict. May seem like assholes⁴. This is simply dedication to keeping our Wiki as close to perfection as possible.

Forum Moderators

Forum Moderators

• Team Leader Admin: ExistentialGrey89 (FM-TL)
  • "The Here and Now" (FM-HN)
    • This division is all about monitoring and moderating the Main Site Forum.
  • "The WayBack Mechanics" (FM-WB)
    • This division is all about monitoring and moderating old and archived threads.
      • …and remember kids, necromancy is evil and should not be tolerat…

Security Team

Disciplinary

• Team Leader Admin: ExistentialGrey89 (SEC-TL)
  • Five-Three Lambda (SEC-53λ)
    • This division monitors the Main Site Wiki for rules violations such as vandalism, plagiarism, and others and is part of determining Bans.
  • Seven-One Lambda (SEC-71λ)
    • This division monitors the Main Site Forum for rules violations and is part of determining Bans.
  • "Three-Four Lambda" (SEC-34λ)
    • This division monitors the Havok Sandbox for rules violations such as vandalism, plagiarism, and others and is part of determining Bans.

Media Division

Media Team

• Team Leader Admin: ExistentialGrey89 (MD-TL)
  • Reapers (MT-RP)
    • Initial media editing.
  • Reducers (MT-RD)
    • Secondary media editing.
  • Ashes to Ashes (MT-2A)
    • Tertiary media editing.
  • Dust to Dust (MT-2D)
    • Quality control and distribution.

Policy Explorers

Policy Explorers

• Team Leader Admin: Reverend Fox (PE-TL)
  • "Grey Sky" (PE-GS)
    • Forum and Wiki Crawlers devoted to policy enforcement. Acting as policy observers to assist when possible.
  • "Night Sky" (PE-NS)
    • Sandbox Crawlers devoted to policy enforcement. Acting as policy observers.
  • "The Mist" (PE-TM)
    • Active Policy Enforcement. Named this due to their method of taking action.

Harassment Team

Harassment Team

• Team Leader Admin: Reverend Fox (HT-TL)
  • "Darkness Rising" (HT-DR)
    • Creeper Monitors.
      • It is the responsibility of (HT-DR) to monitor for possible harassment and to issue STOPs whenever necessary.
  • "Zanward's Black Hoof" (HT-BH)
    • Harassment Investigators.
      • It is the responsibility of (HT-BH) to work with the community in investigating harassment cases.
  • "Yllanda's Rage" (HT-YR)
    • Harassment Determinations.
      • It is the responsibility of (HT-YR) to complete the investigation of harassment cases and pass their absolute determinations to the (SEC-TL) in order to issue the determination.

Provisional Task Forces

PTFs will be assigned as needed to take on specific tasks that move beyond the purview of any singular team.

Footnotes

1. Command Center sounds WAY cooler!

2. "Live like a bitch, get banned like a bitch." ~ Dr. Bright

3. Which they are in no way against dropping!

4. May actually be assholes.