¶ Activity Requirements
¶ Overview
Activity Requirements are in place to ensure that Damage Inc continues to be an exciting and engaged gaming community with a wide plethora of events. So that everyone else can benefit from an active community, everyone is expected to contribute their share of activity.
¶ Minimum Activity Requirements
To stay an active member in DI:
- Member
- Attend 2+ Event hours per month AND be on Discord Voice for 10+ hours per month.
- Senior+
- Be on Discord Voice for 8+ hours per month.
- Divisional Staff (L3 - L7)
- Be on Discord Voice for 20+ hours per month.
- Other Staff (L3 - L7)
- Be on Discord Voice for 8+ hours per month.
Being in a channel alone will not count for Discord Voice hours.
- Be a part of the Damage Inc private Discord server
- Leaving the server and failing to re-join within 48 hours is considered an abandonment of membership and will result in being set to Inactive
Make sure to track your progress using the Dashboard.
¶ Exemptions
¶ Who:
- Vanguard
- Council
- Lifetime Member
- The above three exemptions do not apply to staff in positions.
- Justice Staff
- Away*
¶ Requirements:
- None. (They don't have to do anything if they don't want)
- *Aways are required to have Events attended and Discord Voice hours for days not on away
- Calculated by Days not on away divided by days in the month, multiplied by Events(or Voice) Required. Then round to nearest whole number.
¶ Failure
This happens if you fail your Activity Requirements:
- Failing as a Member+ with a fully charged GGWP bar prior to the missed month:
- Member's GGWP will be reset to 0.
- Failing as a Member+ without a fully charged GGWP bar prior to the missed month:
- Member will be set to Probation rank and receive a Probation *For Record Only* warning.
- Failing as staff will result in a Negligence in Leadership strike.
- GGWP does not apply to staff.
¶ Probation
¶ Eligibility:
- Full members only.
- Issued to members who fail monthly activity requirements and do not have a fully charged GGWP Bar (grace period).
- For Record Probation profile warnings will be used to track those who failed activity requirements.
¶ Term Length on Probation:
- Issued in terms of 1, 2 or 3 months depending if its the members first, second, third or more times failing requirements in a 12 month rolling period.
- Max term length is 3 months for 3 or more failed requirement months.
- Activity history resets on a 12 month rolling basis. This means failing activity requirements from more than 12 months ago will not count towards recurrence (eg. failing requirements 15 months ago, and then failing them now, will still only result in a 1 month probation term as its been more than 12 months since the last incident).
¶ Conditions while on Probation:
- Meet the Member Minimum Activity Requirements for each month in the term length, irrespective of previous rank.
- Failing activity requirements while on probation will result in being set to Inactive.
- Cannot take any staff positions (L3+).
¶ Completing Inactivity Probation
To complete Probation you must meet the activity requirements of Member rank.
- Having a higher level such as Senior, Elite or Veteran does not reduce the requirement.
Once the Probation term has been fully served without failing the conditions you will return to the Member rank.
- Requirements are checked manually at the start of each month and can take a few days to complete, so the change may not be immediate.
¶ AFK Checks
With activity being heavily based on Discord hours a system has been designed to check for people who are abusing it by sitting in channels AFK to pass the requirements while trying to be an unobtrusive to those who are active while in channels.
¶ AFK Check Process
There are three steps to the AFK Check Process:
- Odin will DM the Member asking them to click a button to show they are active.
- If a DM can't be received from Odin, a message will be sent in your channel chat from Odin with a box to click to say you are active.
- If there is still no response, the Member will be moved to the AFK channel, 15 minutes after the first message was sent, with the following message:
¶ AFK Failure Punishment
There will be no punishment for failing a single AFK check but those who are regularly failing them will:
- Receive a verbal warning from VP.
- If they continue, will receive a Failing to Comply with Orders strike.
¶ Completing an AFK Check
You complete an AFK Check by either clicking the box in the DM from Odin or the channel chat message from Odin.
Once completed you will then have a period when you cannot receive another AFK Check, this is to avoid accidental spam of the checks.