Tool Belt
As a ForeverSpades League Staff member you are given some powerful tools for use on SHG.  This page will help you to understand how the league wishes these tools to be used!!

 

When you receive your SHG token
 "personal" is gone!!!

 

If you abuse your "tool belt" for personal reasons
you will only do it once,
you will have your token permanently
removed by SHG

 

 

TOKENS = Staff

As a staff member, your token will show only in the league lobbies.  You are not to go into any other league lobby with your token id!!   You may enter the social, rated or daily tournament lobbys where you will be a player and not a staff member.  However, please remember you are a representative of ForeverSpades and your behavior in any other room will reflect on our league! 
= TD & HTD
= Admin
= Head Admin
 
Tools - 3 ways to access
1.  Under "Tools" in the lobby on the top task bar - right click
2.. Right click on a name in the lobby chat
3.  Right click on a name on the right side in the lobby population list
 
Section 1 - All players tools
COPY - Allows players to copy chat
ADD/REMOVE FRIEND - Players can add to their "friends list" or remove from their "friends list"
BLOCK - Stops a player from being able to send you a private message or to sit at the table you are playing on.  This is permanent until removed by the player.
IGNORE - Stops a player from seeing another players chat in the lobby or on a game table.
 
WHEREIS - Yacht Club Members & tokens - Locator - By right clicking and choosing this option the player can see where a particular player is.  The only person to see this information in the lobby chat is the person making the request.
RATINGS - Yacht Club Members & tokens -
 
Section 2 - Staff only
FLAG WARNING - This is a one way message from the token to player. Players can't respond to flags. They are in your face and stop the player from doing anything until they click the OK.  They are NOT to be used in any way other than site or league business.  This is a "logged" tool which means the staff on SHG monitor this so it's not abused or used for personal business.

This goes on a players permanent SHG record. We will only be using this tool in extreme behaviour occurrances.  When use the Flag Tool you must copy/paste what they did from lobby chat and include they are being boxed and to try to stop additional problems.

Examples of acceptable use:  (lobby chat in different color)

"nancyfancy please stop now and take it out of lobby, we don't call others names here, you are being boxed" "nancyfancy> you are a horrible player who shouldn't be allowed to play anywhere, your retarded"

To get members to tables, TDs should say in lobby "PLAYER TO TABLE #" and start timer and follow our missing player and sub rules. TD may send a pm to player but not required.

ROOM MESSAGE - Sends a grey box that hits everyone that is in the lobby and used for any message you want all players in the lobby to get.  ForeverSpades will generally not be using this.
SET GREET/REMOVE GREET - A grey box that pops up when you enter the lobby used by the Head Admin only or appointed by the HA.  Do NOT remove this greeting if there is one. And to set a greet requires permission from Head Admin
SHOW TIMESTAMP - It is preferred to use date and time  This is used to document something in the lobby.  If you have someone causing a disturbance the timestamp makes it much easier for SHG staff to look it up and deal with the offender.  It will always be in Pacific Time.  Also can be helpful to the td for timers on booted or brb players.
GET GAME RESULTS -  This will post the games that finished in the last 15 minutes.  This is handy for the td should they be booted or disconnected and upon returning can check for finished games while they were gone. 
 
Section 3 - Staff only
CLEAR CHAT - If someone is swearing in the lobby a /clearchat stops all people entering the lobby from seeing the previous chat. However tokens entering will still be able to see it. This helps to stop someone from joining in when they enter.  ForeverSpades wishes this not to be used except under extreme circumstances.
SILENCE LOBBY - Silence will silence everyone in a lobby except tokens.  ForeverSpades will not use this.
UNSILENCE LOBBY -
 
Section 4
GAG - The purpose of the GAG tool is to stop personal attacks and nasty language in the lobby. USE COMMON SENSE!  The gag is powerful, players can't type in the lobby, at their table or in pm's. This is site wide! This is a tool you use only after you have pm'ed or flagged and spoken to the player.
You must always put in a reason on the gag. This is a logged and monitored by SHG.  If you gag someone and you do not put in a reason SHG staff will be coming to you to ask you why.  So make sure to put in your reason.   You can NOT gag another token

When a player has been gagged and they try to type a box will pop up that says:  "You have been gagged for 5 minutes (or 60 minutes)"

If they try to type after that another box pops up saying, "You cannot chat when you have been gagged"

GAG Tool should be used in extreme circumstances and reason for gag copied from lobby included as this is a SHG logged tool.  If you use the GAG Tool you should be contacting an Admin for assistance in boxing and chat log needs to be emailed to Head Admin right away stated you used the GAG Tool

REMOVE GAG - Under no circumstances do you remove a gag that YOU did not put on--doing so will cost you your token on SHG.  You may, of course remove a gag that you put on.
 
BOOT -
Softboot - Removes a player from that one lobby and they can come right back in, use this for stalling, lagging or refusing to play.
TIMED BOOT - Removes a player from SHG completely OUT OF SITE, all lobbies and off the friends list!!  This tool is to be used only for extreme disturbances!!    In most cases ForeverSpades will not be using the time boots but rather use the flag warning followed by the gags if necessary.

Boot 5 Minutes -
Boot 60 Minutes -

REMOVE BOOT -

**** BIG BIG BIG ****
YOU NEVER UNDO or Remove any gag or boot on a player unless YOU
put it on to begin with. This will cost you your SHG token!!

GET PING - Used to determine if a player is lagging---if you ping the player and the results shows more than 1000, the player is lagging badly and you can do a soft-boot on them.  If you ping someone and do not get results within 30 seconds they need a soft-boot!  The higher the ping time the slower they are.

OTHER HELPFUL TOOLS

 

Lobby

Table

     
Lobby   Table Options -
Chat Options - Use to set font size & color also to set "timestamp"

Capture Chat - Use this to capture all chat in the lobby for the last 100 lines up to the point where you captured.

Log Chat - This will begin logging with last 100 lines and will continue until you stop (uncheck) or you leave the lobby.

Announce Results - Clicking on this and placing a check mark in front will give you all game results as a Neptune post in the lobby and will continue to do so until you remove the check mark. Only tokens will see these posts...the general members do not.

Used if there are visitors in the room and there is a possibility a non-member could come to the table when you request a sub, ask one of the members to click on table options and check the "No Join," this will prevent anyone from joining this table so be sure to remove it once a sub is in place.
  Chat Options -- Same as under lobby
  Capture Chat -- Sane as under lobby
  Log Chat -- Same as under lobby