mods [TheGrid FAQ]

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Welcome Agent,

thanks for being MOD on TheGrid. Its really nice to have you in ourTeam. Please start reading the FAQ to get the most out of helping agents with questions. Thank you. <3

So, what are your tasks?

Verify incoming new Users at TheGrid
Verify G+ Comm applys
Validation of Achievements
Clean up all Toplists from suspicious entries (send loglink to DonDarkness)
Check, if there are any unanswered questions on the G+ page you can answer.

1.https://the-grid.org/toolbox/newusers

2.https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105559242174082133049/members/pending

3. https://the-grid.org/r/?page=validate

4. https://the-grid.org/r/?page=toplist

5. https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105559242174082133049

If you need to know, who else is a MOD, please check our Team page by clicking HERE.

The Admin Toolbox

The Admin Toolbox can be found by clicking on the new Mainmenu item that appears when you are promoted as MOD. If it doesnt appear instantly, please refresh the page via STRG+F5 or just login/logout on TheGrid.

A lot of stuff can be done here. Adding regions to countries, verifying new users, validate special achievements, edit user details, edit stats, add events, etc. - so, just get used to it, and feel free to ask any GlobalMod if you have any questions.

Regioneditor

Here you can add missing regions in your country, or maintain existing regions.

Lookup your country and then click on “OPEN” to get access to it.

Events

If there is a new MissionDay, NL-Event, Anomaly in your Country. you can add it here. Please only add events that have already taken place. After its added here, user can lookup the event and add it to their profile. PLEASE CHECK if the event wasnt created already from another CountryMod!

First select the event series, like Recursion, then add the City to it.

Validate “Special Achievements”

All applications for special Achievements like Leader, FrogFarmKiller, etc.

Please only approve the Achivements that have a nice Text & make sence. If someone applys for “FrogFarmkiller” and only has “20 Resos destroyed” something is fake :)

IMPORTANT: Swamp Cleaner must be rejected if the agent isnt from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark or Brasil.

Please read here for details about the special achievements: https://faq.the-grid.org/sp

Useradmin

Codename can be changed if the Agent did a name change on Ingress. Be aware, thats the loginname. If you changed it, tell it to the user please. (Google-Login isnt effected by it)

BAN: Activate the checkmark, then the user cant login anymore. Please report to a Global Mod to delete the user (if necessary).
DELETE: GlobalMod only
CLEAR FROM TOPLISTS: GlobalMod only

New User workflow

If you click on “New Users” you gonna see a list of users that are not approved for TheGrid yet. Click on the filters to filter the users that belong to your country.

How to Verify a User?

1. Check if the User is trusted on Reswue. If he is → This is good!
2. Then check if the Users Email / G+Account (provided in TheGrid) match with the Account provided in Reswue. Enter the Email in Hangouts, write a message to the user and compare G+ Accounts.
3. If the User isnt in Reswue, ping him in Allcomm, check if RESISTANCE, and try to click on his linked Agentprofile (in Scanner). If its the same than in the provided email, write a message in hangouts and verify if he applied in TheGrid. And, as well, please check if its a Level 1-8 account that looks weird. It COULD be a Frog with a blue account!

TheGrid is RESISTANCE only, so please take care of it. If you cant verify someone, ask for help in Mod-Slack-Channel / Mods-TG-Channel.

Via the “Action” button you can assign a user to yourself. So you take care of approving him. But any other MOD can approve the user as well. (Maybe he knows him already)

Approve: User can start using TheGrid. (Every action triggers an email notify to the user)
Duplicate: If an Agentname is used twice at the signup, please mark user as duplicate.
Frog: If its a frog, mark him as frog. Email is blocked then.
Unknown: Only mark as unknown if nobody can verify the user.

Names & fields with the blue marker can be edited by Mods - to correct typos or add notes to a user.
You can reassign or let the user be taken over by another Mod. (Just click on the blue text under “Moderator”)

The Cogwheel

The Cogwheel can be accessed on the right top side of every log. There are several options that can help you to validate stuff or feature / edit the entry.

Log-Features on TheGrid

Feature “Globally” is limited to Global Mods

All Mod can feature posts in their own country and even down to the city/region of the user that wrote the post.

Why and what Posts will be Featured?
Features are the front of the Grid and it is partially localized, partially global. Comments on features should therefore be written in English. No need for lots of features, always choose quality over quantity.

Features are usually
- Sitreps from bigger operations.
- Impressive accomplishments by a single Agent (L16, Unusual Onyx Medals ⇒ NOT SpecOps, Trekker or Guardian).
- Anomaly reports with a good text and/or good photos attached.
- Other updates that has a strong news value or great story/photos.

Important links

Copy/Paste text in several languages

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CkaFhwDso5lhiQaWYOvTNQHQu9t8bDYhi07NVbWxxis

Worldwide G+ Community: (approval required after apply)

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/105559242174082133049

TheGrid

https://the-grid.org

Login

https://the-grid.org/login/

Sign-up Help

https://the-grid.org/setup/

Country request form