Project:Staff Policies

These are the three central tenets that all Diep.io Wiki Staff must follow if they wish to retain their User-Rights & remain on Staff. Failure to comply with these can result in demotions, being fired outright, or in a full ban from the Wiki. Ignorance of these rules is not an excuse for breaking them. Therefore, if you are on Staff, you have a duty of care to read the following definitions; non-Staff may ignore them.
 * 1) Do not neglect your power.
 * 2) Do not misuse your power.
 * 3) Do not disrespect the rules you enforce.

What is the neglect of power?
In essence, this is inactivity, or the underuse of power. Staff are given their rights so that they can use them for the good of the Wiki; to protect it, enhance it, & moderate it. Failure to fully utilize the powers you have been granted may result in a demotion to a lower level. Repeated streaks of complete inactivity may result in ejection from Staff.

What is the misuse of power?
This is essentially the opposite of neglect; it is the overuse of power. Power used without good reason or forethought. On this Wiki, it has historically not be as large of an issue as the underuse of power, but it has the potential to be much worse; due to the high degree of control over the Wiki that User-Rights give to each person, becoming progressively more dangerous as more rights are accrued. For this reason, only responsible users are given User-Rights, & there are many limits on their use as defined below.

What is the Misuse of Rollback Rights?

 * 1) Rollbacking a series of edits when only one of them needs to be nullified.
 * 2) Editing the comments of other individuals without a serious reason, such as to turn off autoplay modules, to shrink obnoxiously large images, or to remove other forms of spam.
 * 3) Any other exercises of Rollback Rights that an Administrator deems to be unacceptable.

What is the Misuse of Chat Moderator Rights?

 * 1) Kicking or banning someone for any reason other than because they have broken a Chat Rule.
 * 2) Threatening to ban or kick people to silence them, rather than to warn them not to break a rule.
 * 3) Any other exercises of Chat Moderator Rights that an Administrator deems to be unacceptable.

What is the Misuse of Discussion Moderator Rights?

 * 1) Removing Forum or Franken Forum posts without a serious reason, such as to remove spam, harassing comments, or other threads which break the Forum Rules.
 * 2) Closing threads without a serious reason, such as when threads are many weeks cold, to stop necroposting, or for concluded Résumés.
 * 3) Restoring threads without a serious reason.
 * 4) Highlighting or unhighlighting threads without approval from an Administrator or from the News Team.
 * 5) Any other exercises of Discussion Moderator Rights that an Administrator deems to be unacceptable.

What is the Misuse of Content Moderator Rights?

 * 1) Protecting unofficial User Subpages without permission from the User.
 * 2) Edit-Protecting Talk Pages so that normal users cannot write on them; Talk Pages should have Move-Protection only.
 * 3) Protecting Main Namespace pages so that only Content Mods can edit them for a duration of more than one week, or for any reason other than to protect it from spam, vandalism, or edit wars.
 * 4) Editing permanently protected Project Namespace pages to change the content without permission from an Administrator.
 * 5) Unprotecting Project Namespace pages without permission from an Administrator.
 * 6) Unprotecting User & User Talk pages of banned accounts.
 * 7) Unprotecting special templates, such as Main Page templates.
 * 8) Deleting pages without a serious reason, such as to remove spam or when merging pages.
 * 9) Undeleting pages without a serious reason.
 * 10) Any other exercises of Content Moderator Rights that an Administrator deems to be unacceptable.

What is the Misuse of Administrator Rights?

 * 1) Giving unearned promotions to other Staff Members; Staff must prove they deserve their promotions via frequent contributions, helpfulness, or leadership.
 * 2) Removing the User-Rights of standing Staff Members without grievous need, or permission from a Bureaucrat.
 * 3) Unnecessarily removing or altering necessary MediaWiki Namespace content without a justifiable reason for doing so.
 * 4) Deleting MediaWiki Namespace pages.
 * 5) Banning accounts without a justifiable reason for doing so, such as to stop spammers or vandals.
 * 6) Banning accounts for ludicrous amounts of time.
 * 7) Unbanning accounts without just cause.
 * 8) Carelessly using the automatic Administrator tools.
 * 9) Any other exercises of Administrator Rights that a Bureaucrat deems to be unacceptable.