I need a Admin for my server "Yet Another Server
requirements : nice guy be serious if needed 2 times in a week online
and not abusing this privilege

Off-topic guidelines
Off-topic is for things unrelated to Ace of Spades.
The general guidelines however, still apply here.

Topics shall now be moderated under the guidelines, as well as:
We shall allow:
   - Random talk about various subjects
   - Question and answer topics
   - Talk about other games you play

However, we shall not permit:
   - Sexual/racist/abusive/spamming posts or topics
   - Anything we deem inappropriate for viewing
   - Provocative behaviour will be dealt with - disrespect or spite shall not be tolerated

We hope to keep this place a lot cleaner than it has been, attract a wider audience and have a generally better community.
Thanks,
The staff

Following on from the new announcement, we have drafted some guidelines for this category. Any suggestions to improve these can be posted below.

Guidelines for General Gameplay
In addition to following the general guidelines set out:

- Posts should be related to gameplay only.
- If you have any difficulties/enquires about either the game or the forum, they belong in the support category
- Topics that do not relate to gameplay, or are directed at a specific user (or group of users), belong in Off-Topic
- Map/mod requests/releases belong in the Maps&Mods
- Keep threads on the lines of the topic. Purely unrelated posts are likely to just be removed from now on
- Provocative behaviour will be dealt with - disrespect or spite shall not be tolerated

Not following these, or the guidelines set out in the forum guidelines will likely result in the moving/deletion/closing of posts, and user warnings if required.

Thanks,
The staff.

After hearing suggestions for many new ways to prevent trolls, griefing, etc, some good, some bad, I gave up and am now shouting from the rooftops the real way to stop the skiddies from ruining your server.

They're called admins. They're actual people who actually supervise things. They can make calls better than any software, assess a situation more accurately, and they're harder to abuse than a public votekick.

However, most server hosts don't monitor their servers very well. This is a problem. Some hosts check on their servers frequently or maintain their presence (or save and close servers when they're away) to keep things under control, and their servers are consistently the best I've been on. It's crucial to hosting a good server that you keep an eye on things to destroy the trolls and protect the people that just want to play a fun game without constantly having to votekick Deuces.

The only feature for vanilla AoS server software that REALLY needs to be implemented is a way for server hosts to appoint admins, and possibly moderators, with the power to kick and ban at will (or just kick and tempban, in the case of moderators). The exact features would need some consideration (can all admins make admins, or only the host? What about making moderators? Could other mods do it or not?), but the overall idea would go a long way to making a better game experience.

All a host would need to do is gather up a friend or two, give them the appropriate powers, and start a server up. This would also strengthen the community (players that have gained a positive reputation might end up moderators on a plethora of servers, meaning that they can play in a bunch of different places and still remain helpful to the other players. If every single member of the AoS community who was trustworthy enough for the job was given it, griefers wouldn't stand a chance. They'd be kicked by five people at once) a bit overall. Servers could potentially have a moderator or admin online at all times, making things very hard indeed for griefers.

So hosts, PLEASE supervise your servers better, and Ben, can we get a feature like this? The system doesn't even require registration to work... server hosts could set a password a la PySpades.

You are probably aware that this place is used alot to discuss things. But at the moment it is un-ruled.
Threads are being endlessly bumped and everyone is asking the same questions over and over again. I wouldn't quite say it's spammed, but it's pretty bad.
The forums need more controls, and administrators/moderators to enforce them. We need to lock threads with reason, move threads to another category, and add more categories! One for news, mapping, modding etc.

On the thought of moderators, the Wiki has its team: http://www.aceofspadeswiki.com/index.php?title=Staff
A collection of people who know the game pretty well and have been reliable. For some, moderating the wiki might be enough, however many of us who have a bit of time on our hands could be available to help moderate these forums.
I just think that, seeing the player base is ever expanding and because people are getting tired of spam, there needs to be some control implemented before this place descends into mayhem.

~The Grandmaster

A month or so ago, the community created this:

http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=6f3a1

It's a community moderated list of suggestions for Ace of Spades. Since it's creation, over 500 people have submitted over 250 suggestions and cast over 16,000 votes for these various suggestions. Despite this, threads keep popping up that contain the same suggestions over and over and over. However, it occurred to me that perhaps a lot of the newer members of the forums don't know about this suggestions system.

So here you go. Have a suggestion or idea? Pitch it to the community here and see what other people think about it. Then, you can browse the list of suggestions and vote for the ones you like, downvote the ones that suck, and help make the list more complete and organized so that Ben can know what the community wants to see in his game in the future.

Also, could we get a moderator to pin this somewhere on the forum? Having all the ideas and suggestions in one place keeps the forums over here a lot cleaner, and I imagine makes it easier for Ben to get gauge what the community as a whole wants.