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Admin Guidelines
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Please see your Admin Transparency page to review the list of permissions and roles you are capable of. Then, review the relevant sections below for some guidelines and information relating to that role.
Every picture uploaded to a user's profile page can be seen by (some) admin users. The admin gallery view can find all user photos, whether private or friends-only, whether opted-in for the Site Gallery or not.
Notice: the website will not allow you to accidentally "like" a photo that you should not have been able to see. "Like" buttons are hidden during the admin view of the Site Gallery, but in case you click it on their profile page, the website will display an error message "You aren't allowed to like that photo" so the user isn't alarmed.
Keep up with the newest forum posts and generally make sure people aren't fighting or uploading inappropriate photos to one of the few photo boards.
If you are moderating the chat rooms, your main responsibilities are to:
If a user reports a Direct Message conversation they're having, a link to view that chat thread will be available from the report. This will impersonate the reporter and will be logged - see "Impersonating users," below.
DMs are text-based only, so users won't be sending any image attachments that need moderating and their privacy is to be respected. A user may report a problematic conversation for us to take a look at.
From a user's profile page you can "impersonate," or log in as them. You should almost never need to do this, and only to diagnose a reported issue from their account or something like that.
You will need to write a reason for impersonating a user. The event is logged and will be e-mailed to the admin team along with your reason. The admin team is alerted any time an Impersonate action is performed.
Note: when you impersonate, their "Last logged in at" time is not updated by your actions. So if a user were last seen a month ago, they will still appear last seen a month ago. But other interactions you make as their account (e.g. marking notifications read, reading their unread DMs) will work and may be noticed.
If you are moderating the chat room, these are useful commands to know. You can type these commands into the message box on the room.
Important:
The /help
command lists some additional options that you generally should
never need to use. Be very careful not to issue commands like shutdown
which will reboot the chat server, as this can be very disruptive to our members.
Generally, as a volunteer chat moderator you will only be using the /nsfw, /kick and /ban commands as needed.
Note: the @ symbol should NOT appear in front of the username, the chat server currently won't recognize the user. If you use the @ mention auto-complete, be sure to remove the @ symbol before sending the command. This is a bug that will probably be fixed soon.