Minecraft Name: Frostystorm1

Suggestion: Make a bot or program to evaluate staff activity based on hours spent unvanished in game.

Reason: Currently staff activity is evaluated by checking the amount of hours that a staff has spent in game, the problem with this is that a staff can easily use /v to get out of executing their staff duties while still technically being "in game". Staff should be evaluated by the number of hours they spend actively moderating and helping people, not the amount of time that they can melon farm or fish during. :p

Any Other Information:

Hopefully this would help to not only more accurately determine which staff are active, but also it will encourage staff to keep the community in great shape!

- If a staff wants to actively moderate, they would usually be unvanished. This would be logged by the program as time legitimately spent moderating.
- If a staff is vanished, it is 90% of the time due to the fact that they do not want to be bothered by other people and are trying to make money or do other personal things, or just in general, play the server. This means that they aren't really doing staff work, these hours shouldn't be counted in overall staff activity.

Note to consider: Use this method to only evaluate blue mods, since higher ranked admins/mods may need to be in vanish in order to actually do their staff work.

Link To This Plugin/Is this a custom addition?:

No plugin required, just a bot or custom program.

 

1) I think a bot could maybe pull this off. If a "normal" user was polling for online staff every minute or so, it could add a value of 1 onto a variable that stores the overall activity for that staff for the month. The variables would correspond to minutes online, and could be easily converted to hours in order to find hours/day.


2) I updated the main post to account for this :D

 

Yes! I just learned how to use regex in Java, technically you could have a bot running with a text file of staff usernames and times. Every 10 seconds the bot would update the text file and add a value of "10" (or whatever interval it is checking) to each staff it sees online. Because the bots would see vanished and disconnected staff the same way, it would work.