Help manual for administrators.

Structure of administration.

The administration is structured into a Technocratic Republic, where the users of the website are themselves the administrators and the moderators of their own environment. The organisation is pyramidal, with 5 different categories of users, each having different roles:

Root
Administrator
Chief moderator
Moderator
Member

User Category: root

Root

Moderation level: >= 300
Controls which servers: All the servers.
Roles:
- Nominates the top-level administrators.
- Administrates some of the server settings:
  - For each country, decide the granularity. It means: When a user selects a server, can he select only the country? If a country's server is crowded, the administrator can decide to set the granularity on "Region", and then the users will be able to select a region of this country. If the region is crowded, the administrator can decide to set the granularity to city.
Has access to extra menus:
- Main menu > Menu
  Root
- User menu > Menu
  Root

User Category: admin

Adminstrator.

Moderation level: >= 200
Controls which servers: A specific list of servers, plus all the included locations servers. For example: If an administrator is in charge of a region, he is also in charge of all its cities.
Roles:
- Nominates other administrators for contained sub servers. If the area to administrate is too big, the administrator will nominates other administrator for smaller locations. For example: The administrator of USA can nominate another administrator for each American State, or group of States. And the administrator of each State can nominate an administrator for each city, or for each group of cities.
- Nominates chief moderators.
- Controls that moderation is handled correctly, on his servers of responsability.
- Administrates some of the server settings:
  - Administrate the forums list. It means: Each server can have a different list of forums and sub-forums. It's the administrator's role to create, rename, delete, move, and handle forums. Only him knows the local culture. For example, a forum about "Baseball" would make sense in Japan, but not so much in Spain.
  - Administrate the official chat rooms list: The official chat rooms are always opened. They are the main public chat rooms of a server. You can decide to add or remove official chat rooms. It's your role as an administrator to decide what to do. For example, if you are the administrator of California, you can decide to open a new official chat room named "Aqui se habla español".
  - Can close administratively entire sections of the server: Play rooms, chat rooms, forums, appointements.
Has access to extra menus:
- Main menu > Menu Moderator > Menu Technocracy > Menu Administrate servers

User Category: moderator chief

Chief moderator.

Moderation level: >= 100
Controls which servers: A specific list of servers, and nothing more. A chief moderator (or a moderator) does not have authority on the servers of the sub locations. For example: The chief moderator of "
Spain
" does not have authority on the server of "
Catalunya
", nor on the server of "
Madrid
". He is only in charge of nominating moderators for the server "
Spain
".
Roles:
- Nominates other moderators, to constitute a moderation team for the server.
- Controls that moderation is handled correctly, on his sole server of responsability.
Has access to extra menus:
- Main menu > Menu Moderator
- User menu > Menu Moderator

User Category:

Moderator.

Moderation level: >= 0
Controls which servers: A specific list of servers, and nothing more.
Roles:
- Nominates other moderators, to constitute a moderation team for the server.
- Controls that moderation is handled correctly, on his sole server of responsability.
- Moderate public chat rooms, users profiles, forums, appointments... The moderator is the most important role of all this technocratic structure. All the structure is created for the purpose of having experienced and able moderators, so they can maintain law and order on each server.
Has access to extra menus:
- Main menu > Menu Moderator
- User menu > Menu Moderator

User Category: user

Member.

Moderation level: None.
Controls which servers: None.
Roles: A civilian, without any role in the technocracy. He is just a normal member.
Has access to extra menus: None.

How does a technocracy work ?

A technocracy is based on information transit, from top to bottom, and from bottom to top.

1. Information flowing from top to bottom: The higher technocrat must deleguate actions to lower technocrats, and provide them instructions.
- In the app, the administrator will select and nominate several administrators or moderators.
- There is nothing he can't do, because if the task is too big, he has the ability to nominate more people.
- He should not nominate more than 10 people, because it is too many to control them. Instead, if he needs more people, he should raise the level of his team members, and ask them to nominate more people, but under their own responsability.
2. Information flowing from bottom to top: The higher technocrat must monitor the actions of lower technocrats, through global statistics and detailed actions analysis.
- In the app, the administrator will regularly watch the moderators statistics of each team under his control.
- He will also inspect the moderations logs and the users' complaints, to see if anything looks suspicious.
- The administrator must be an active member of the community. He must not be disconnected from the civilian users. Because disconnected technocrats always take bad decisions.
3. Information flowing from top to bottom: Based on his monitoring, the higher technocrat may have to apply some form of authority on the lower technocrats, in the name of the technocracy.
- In the app, the administrator will talk to the members of his team, and negociate about the problems he can see.
- But if the situation is out of control, the administrator will remove members of the team, and replace them.
« Long live the technocratic republic! »

Local rules of moderation.

When you use the website, you must select a server. Servers are a reproduction of the world map: Its countries, its regions or states, its cities.
As you must know, in differents parts of the world, people have a different demography, a different history, a different culture, a different religion, a different political background, a different geopolitical interest...
In the app, we respect each culture, without any hierarchy. Each moderation team is independant, and composed of local folks. Each team applies the local cultural codes.
It can be disturbing if a user is from a certain part of the world, and is visiting another server. He might see something that goes against his own morality. However, on
player22.com
, we do not apply foreign moralities, but only the local morality codes.