For discord, I think a small private group is a good way of setting up the tone of the server. So that way once you find someone to be a good mod, you don't have to engage unless there's something major going down that the mod needs your input on. But other than that, you'd be able to engae on your own terms. And at that point, the server kinda runs itself.
I've seen it with the EBF guy where he only shows up on ocassion, but most issues are dealt with by the mods and Head mod.
On the Rusty Lake server, the people there are kinda self policing with normal people just informing others to move to the right rooms for specific things. (it is quite the thing to see that some people are that blind to miss 500 messages about the same thing about moving to the specific HELP AND WALKTHROUGH channel)
If there's any advice I can give, make sure to never give the mod status to people who ask straight up, that is gamble with astonomical odds in favor that the person will go mad with power in a future date.
Seeing how nervous you seem about the discord, normally most games have a discord link right on the game, but since yours is behind a paywall, that'll greatly decrease the amount of people, both nice and trolls. However most trolls I know are pretty broke so. I doubt you'd have many from the fig hunter days. and those trolls sound like prebubecent kids honestly, so I doubt they'd be able to pay for anything.
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Tobias 1102~4Y
Interesting that Matt Roszak only shows up in his occasionally. I remember someone (maybe you, I forget!) linked to a post of his a while back, where he talked about the stresses of running a community. Maybe keeping distant is the best way to do it. I don't know if it's in my nature though... We'll see.
I feel reluctant to make even people I've known for years into mods, so I definitely won't be doing that for some stranger! Choosing people is going to be the hardest part, I think...
I've seen it with the EBF guy where he only shows up on ocassion, but most issues are dealt with by the mods and Head mod.
On the Rusty Lake server, the people there are kinda self policing with normal people just informing others to move to the right rooms for specific things. (it is quite the thing to see that some people are that blind to miss 500 messages about the same thing about moving to the specific HELP AND WALKTHROUGH channel)
If there's any advice I can give, make sure to never give the mod status to people who ask straight up, that is gamble with astonomical odds in favor that the person will go mad with power in a future date.
Seeing how nervous you seem about the discord, normally most games have a discord link right on the game, but since yours is behind a paywall, that'll greatly decrease the amount of people, both nice and trolls. However most trolls I know are pretty broke so. I doubt you'd have many from the fig hunter days. and those trolls sound like prebubecent kids honestly, so I doubt they'd be able to pay for anything.
I feel reluctant to make even people I've known for years into mods, so I definitely won't be doing that for some stranger! Choosing people is going to be the hardest part, I think...