General Staff Quiz General Staff Quiz Complete this quiz before applying for any staff position! The answers to the questions in these quizzes can be found by reading through the General Handbook for staff and the Rules. Please share your name and email so we can keep track of your scores. These should be the same name and email you use in your staff application. 1 / 10 How strictly are staff members held accountable to the rules? Staff can do whatever they want. Staff can break some rules, just not the bad ones. Staff are held to the exact same standards as other members. Staff are expected to follow the rules more strictly than they should be enforced. 2 / 10 Which of the following best practice security standards are staff members expected to follow? (Select all that apply) Do not share your accounts or passwords. Make each of your passwords unique. Change your passwords if you think your accounts are at risk. Use multi-factor authentication. 3 / 10 When can a volunteer staff member take a break? (Select all that apply) 15 minute breaks every 2 hours. 60 minute lunch breaks once per day in a shift longer than 6 hours. Short breaks up to 7 days can be taken at any time for any reason. Long breaks over 7 days can be taken at any time for any reason with prior notice. When handling a moderation case, so long as other moderators are notified to the situation. When no tasks are assigned. Never. 4 / 10 When should you contact Leadership? (Select all that apply) When a community member breaks a rule. When a staff member breaks a rule or staff guideline. When a dispute comes up between staff members. When you need clarification about your assigned task. When you are going on an extended break. 5 / 10 Scenario: A member of the community is trying to start an argument with you in Discord. They say something that offends you, and you believe that anyone else in your situation would be offended, too. How should you respond? Join the argument and prove them wrong. Ignore them. Find a member of the community team to handle the situation. Leave the community. 6 / 10 Scenario: You became a staff member earlier this week and you are still new to your role. Who can you ask for help? (Select all that apply) Non-staff community members. Members of other staff teams. Other members of your staff team. Leadership. 7 / 10 Scenario: You are a Moderator in the community management team. Less than an hour ago, you gave a member of the Discord server a 1-day timeout, which you believe was the correct action. However, another Moderator went behind your back and banned the individual. You have not yet spoken about the issue. How should you handle the situation? Revoke the ban without speaking to the other Moderator. Confront the other Moderator about it in a public channel. Begin a conversation with the Moderator about it in the appropriate private channel. Immediately open a Contact Leadership ticket without first speaking to the other Moderator. 8 / 10 Scenario: You strongly disagree with a decision made by Leadership and believe it sets a bad precedent and will be terrible for our community or one of our games in the long run. You believe that reverting this decision is of the utmost importance. How will you express this to the team? Post about it publicly in our Discord server. Message your friends in the Gamer Dorks community and ask them what they think of the situation. Begin a discussion about it in the appropriate channel in our Staff Discord. Open a Contact Management ticket. 9 / 10 Scenario: A member of the Developer team expresses a dislike of a group of people based on their race, and it goes unnoticed by Leadership. How should you handle the situation? Publicly call them out on what they did wrong. Privately approach the Developer and calmly explain to them why their statement was wrong. Open a Contact Management ticket to make sure Leadership is aware of the situation. Ban the Developer or find someone who can. 10 / 10 Scenario: You have heard rumor that another member of your team allegedly leaked an upcoming update of one of our competitive games. This leak could result in the recipients having an unfair advantage. This is your first time hearing of the situation and it has not been discussed within the staff team. You asked the people sharing the rumor some follow-up questions about specifics. What is the next action you will take to handle the situation? Confront your team member about it and ask them if the allegations are true. Alert the community management team about the situation in the appropriate channel of the Staff Discord. Investigate the situation yourself before taking any further action. Open a Contact Management ticket about the situation, including details such as evidence received and source of the rumor. Your score is 0% Helper Quiz Helper Quiz Complete this quiz before applying for Helper! The answers to the questions in these quizzes can be found by reading through the Community Handbook for staff and the Rules. Please share your name and email so we can keep track of your scores. These should be the same name and email you use in your staff application. 1 / 20 What are the main goals of community moderation? (Select all that apply) To exercise power over others. To ensure harmony within the community. To promote safety in the community. To enforce rules to the very letter, regardless of nuance and detail. 2 / 20 Who needs to be informed of action taken against a rulebreaker, and how should it be done? (Select all that apply) The community as a whole, via public chat message. The rulebreaker, via punishment message. Anyone who asks, via a direct message. Anyone who was significantly impacted by the rulebreaker, via a direct message. The staff team, via modlog post. 3 / 20 What should be included in a punishment message? (Select all that apply) Relevant rule numbers and letters. Explanation of fault. Appropriate levels of anger and vitriol based on the severity of their wrongdoing. Evidence of rules broken. 4 / 20 How should a Warning be served to a rulebreaker? As a "Verbal Warning" in a public chat channel, mentioning the rulebreaker in question. As a "Verbal Warning" in a direct message. Through the appropriate moderator command. Through email. 5 / 20 What evidence can be taken as authoritative in a moderation case? (Select all that apply) Screenshots or recordings taken by members of the community. Screenshots or recordings taken by members of staff. Message links. Log files. Witness testimony. 6 / 20 Which of the following situations can result in an instantaneous ban? (Select all that apply) Pinging a member of Leadership. Slurs or overtly hateful speech. Intentionally misgendering or deadnaming another individual. Glorifying fascist leaders. Sexual innuendo. Posting ascii art. Ban evasion. Getting banned on one of our games, then joining the Discord server. Publicly criticising a member of staff. Knowingly and falsely accusing another individual, of committing a bannable offense. 7 / 20 When a member of the community breaks a rule in retaliation to another rulebreaker, who is punished? Neither, since now they're even. The instigator, since they started it. The retaliator, since they most recently broke a rule. Both, since they both broke a rule. 8 / 20 Which of the following situations is not against the rules? Posting a full picture of the Statue of David. Speaking a non-English language in an English text channel. Posting ascii art. Publicly criticising a member of staff. "Snitching" on troublemakers. 9 / 20 Which Discord bot is used for punishment commands in the Gamer Dorks Discord? Dyno Sapphire GS Defender YAGPDB.xyz 10 / 20 With our moderation Discord bot, what is the proper command syntax for the Timeout command? /timeout [user] [duration] [message] /timeout [user] [duration] [category] [message] /mute [user] [duration] [message] /mute [user] [duration] [category] [message] 11 / 20 Scenario: A member of the community attempts to make a bug report through the #general channel of the Gamer Dorks Discord server. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? No action necessary. Forward the bug report to the appropriate staff channel and warn the individual. Timeout the individual for 1 hour. Ban the individual permanently. 12 / 20 Scenario: Alice, a member of the Gamer Dorks community, intentionally misgenders another member of the community, Barb, who is not currently present. In a previous conversation, Alice used the wrong pronouns for Barb and was corrected and a member of staff served Alice the Inclusivity Statement. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? Warn Alice for unintentional discrimination and send her the Inclusivity Statement. Mute Alice for 1 hour for crossing Barb's boundaries. Ban Alice permanently for hate speech. Ban Barb for having pronouns. 13 / 20 Scenario: Cecil, a member of the community, recently blocked Davis, another member of the community, on Discord. Neither of them have a punishment history in the community and are both well-liked. Davis continues to attempt to contact Cecil via Gamer Dorks, despite being blocked. Cecil expresses that Davis should stop, but Davis doesn't stop. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? Warn Cecil for restricting Davis's free speech. Mute both Cecil and Davis for 1 hour for arguing publicly. Mute Davis for 1 hour for crossing Cecil's established boundaries. Permanently ban Davis for crossing Cecil's established boundaries. 14 / 20 Scenario: Edith, a member of the community, has a Muslim star-and-crescent symbol in her Discord bio. A new member of the community, Francis, takes issue because he has experienced oppression from Muslims in the past. Francis publicly calls out Edith and expresses that there is no true faith but his own, and begins proselytizing. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? Warn Francis for starting religious discussions. Warn Edith for her Discord bio, since it started an argument. Mute Francis for 1 hour for proselytism and starting a religious argument. Mute Edith and Francis for 1 hour for religious arguments. 15 / 20 Scenario: Geraldine, a well known member of the community, likes to post their art in the Gamer Dorks Discord. One day, they post a piece of art with non-sexual nudity. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? Delete Geraldine's post. Delete Geraldine's post and warn them that repeat offenses of posting nudity could result in a ban. Delete Geraldine's post and mute them for 1 hour. Delete Geraldine's post and permanently ban them. Do nothing, since it's just art. 16 / 20 Scenario: In a temporary Gamer Dorks Minecraft server, mild language such as swearing is censored and replaced with asterisks (*) because of its age demographic. A well known member of the community, Harriet, who is known to swear when it is allowed, does so in this Minecraft server. Seeing that her message was censored, she says it again, this time spacing out the letters so that it doesn't get censored. This word was used as an exclamation and was not intended to offend anyone. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? Warn Harriet for bypassing the chat filter. Warn Harriet for swearing. Mute Harriet for 1 hour for bypassing the chat filter. Mute Harriet for 1 hour for swearing. 17 / 20 Scenario: Ira is a well known ranked player of a competitive game on Gamer Dorks and a Twitch streamer. One day, Ira joins the Discord server. Another member of the community, Jax, recognizes that Ira is a streamer but doesn't know how to watch Ira's stream. Jax asks for the link and Ira posts it. Ira's stream is known by our staff team to have no objectionable content. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? Do nothing, no rules were broken. Do nothing, but recommend that Ira become an Affiliate so that they can promote their stream officially. Warn Ira for advertising. Warn Jax for encouraging Ira to advertise, and warn Ira for advertising. Permanently ban Ira for advertising. 18 / 20 Scenario: Kay was recently muted for engaging in an argument with another member of the community. Today, Kay's mute expired. She began insulting the staff team, saying her punishment was unfair and that whoever muted her should be demoted. You believe she might be correct that it was unfair. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? Agree with Kay, she was right. Apologize and clear Kay's punishment history. Warn Kay for public complaint, informing her that the situation will be investigated if she pursues this matter in a ticket. Mute Kay for 1 hour for public complaint. 19 / 20 Scenario: Luis is a member of the community known to make edgy jokes. One day, he changes his username to the name of a notorious child predator and private island owner. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? Warn Luis. Ban Luis, but inform him that the ban will be reduced to 1 week if he switches to an inoffensive username. Ban Luis permanently with no chance for appeal. 20 / 20 Scenario: Monroe is known to be a troublemaker but has never broken a rule explicitly. People leave the community because of things he says, but he has never been found guilty of an infraction according to the rules. The people who Monroe doesn't alienate are devout supporters of him and his influence, so banning him will likely anger his supporters. However, refusing to take action will likely stunt the growth of the community and do more harm in the long run. Weighing the pros and cons of taking action, you decide that banning Monroe is the right decision. What is the appropriate action to handle this situation? Contact a sympathetic member of Leadership to handle the situation and advise that Monroe be removed. Discuss with the team about the situation since Monroe is a well known and well liked member of the community. Ban Monroe for harm to the community's growth. Take no action, since no rules were broken. Your score is 0%
