Cryptids Carnival

About Our Mod Team

Our moderators play a pivotal role in all of the instances we run. From helping manage the discord, to planning, managing, and running our events. Our goal is to ensure everyone has a great time and ensure that people are treated with respect and the rules are enforced with patience, kindness, and empathy.

We are currently accepting applications to join our staff!

We're looking for people interested in running instances. Click the link to apply and let us know in the Discord.

Current Moderators

For everyone's safety, our staff always represent one of the Staff group banners shown below. If anyone comes up to you claiming to be staff and is not representing these banners or is not a member of one of our staff groups, please report them to a mod or in our discord's Reporting channel, include their VRC Username and a description of their behavior if possible. All our moderators have the @Staff role on the discord server for ease of pinging all of us at once.

Moderation Code of Conduct

Attendance

Staff/Admin are not required to attend every instance we run, but there are certain minimum expectations.
- In order to be considered for Admin, Staff must have attended and assisted with the running of two full instances each for every official group instance we run.
- Staff are expected to assist with at least one Official instance each week in addition to any other unofficial instance or off VR events they run.
- Admin are expected to assist with at least three Official instances each week in addition to any other unofficial instance or off VR events they run.
- "Assist with" an instance is defined as present and attentive for moderation for at least two hours of the instance
  - You are not required to be at all instances all the time, just don't leave an instance unmoderated.

General Moderation

Always represent the Staff or Admin Group while moderating any Curious Cryptids Instance

All Moderators should have at least one of the Group official stickers: the group tag, the group public rules, or the group private rules. (NOTE: VRC+ Is not required to be a member of staff or of the admin team. It helps and if you DO have it, please take copies of these stickers, but it is not required.)

Throw that sticker down someplace visible near the spawn. Preferably there would be multiple Admin in an instance, if so someone should throw down the group tag sticker and another person should throw down the version of the rules appropriate for the instance.

For any instance or event we run, an announcement should be made in the discord server (in ⁠events) and in VRChat (sent to Public) naming the event, the world, and the instance type at a minimum.
- - In the case of discord announcements, be sure to @ whichever roles seem appropriate.
  - After any event, an announcement should be made to the group in VRChat thanking participants for coming, welcoming new members, and reminding people to join our Discord.
  - If more than one member of the admin/staff teams are present, please help each other out, let one admin work on opening the instance while another or others make the announcements.
If you are the only moderator in an instance, please refrain from sleeping, prolonged AFK periods, or sequestering yourself away in a private or restricted access room. If you feel the need to do so and no one else is available to assist in instance moderation, we would rather you close the instance than risk TOS/rules violations getting us in trouble as a group.
For new/trainee staff members, any event that they pilot or initiate should have a more experienced staff member or admin attend the event or instance for at least the first couple of hours to ensure things are running smoothly, assist, and train as necessary.

3. Kicking / Banning

Slurs and bigotry are not tolerated. If someone is found to be using racial or LGBT slurs or bigoted language or dog whistles, they should be banned from the group.
Intentionally malicious actors such as obnoxious behavior, spammy avatars, or massive avatars should be warned, and then kicked if the behavior persists.
Anyone found to be harassing other players or violating the rules should be warned, and then kicked if the player persists.
Regular, non-moderation staff should escalate reports of rule-breaking and malicious behavior to moderators as quickly as possible. Non-Moderator staff does have the authority to warn people, though, just not kick/ban.
For personal issues between instance attendees where no rules are being violated, we recommend that the complainants simply block each other.
For most situations that may result in a kick, at least two admin should be involved in the decision to kick an individual unless the rule breaking or behavior is immediate and egregious.
For all situations where a ban is being considered, that should go through Sarah Blanch or Cryptidbun prior to enforcement.
If any attendee of an event blocks the staff or admin, they should be kicked. Similarly, if you feel the need to block someone, consider them for kicking instead. If their behavior is bad enough to block, why keep them around? We cannot moderate people we cannot interact with.

4. Behavior

Be kind and empathetic with everyone you encounter. You are representing the group and are people's first impression of us.
We want to foster a welcoming, chill atmosphere.
Whenever you're running an event or instance, make sure to send group invites to new people who join, and explain a little about our group to anyone interested.
Make sure you make the rounds around an instance, meet people, talk to them. Don't let large parts of the world go un-visited for too long.
Please do not complain about an instance, other members of staff, event, or world we're in while running an event as this can alienate people from the group. After all "Man if the people running this thing don't even want to be here, why should I?"

5. Instance Running

We currently have only four regular events, some with their own little addendum to the general rules:
- - Snuggle Sunday, a Group Public event all about snuggles, conversation, and lo-fi vibes.
    - - Nudity and ERP are not allowed. Bright, flashing, and noisy avatars or avatars with large world effects are not allowed.
  - Movie Monday, group public event at Popcorn Palace.
    - - Select a movie based on group suggestions in ⁠movie-night .
      - Massive avatars or disruptive avatars with world effects or loud sounds are discouraged.
      - This is the only instance where microphone/OVR "DJ's" are flat out disallowed.
  - Friday Night Funk, Group Public club night.
    - - No special rules for this instance.
  - Game Start Saturday, various gaming activities.
    - - Additional considerations at moderator discretion depending on the type of event, and whether it's on or off VRChat.
Try to get pictures to post to the discord and include in the website's gallery.
If any event attendees want to help out without being a member of staff, ie. serving as a bartender in a club instance, they must rep the Curious Cryptids group banner while doing so.

6. Unscheduled Instances

All Moderators are encouraged to open group instances wherever and whenever they like.
Please keep in mind that you will be representing the group when you do so and behave accordingly.
If an "unofficial" instance seems to be a hit, we'll reconvene about adding it to the official schedule.

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