Ok, now I am going to fill this in. If Jax* or anyone from the - what's the new term? - finds it counter-productive, feel free to move or delete it.
1. What is the best way to help a new player who just started playing the game in your opinion (when you are not a game master but just a normal player)?
Tell them where the important starting points are and what to do next. If you're really nice you can also accompany them to places. Depending on how nice you are and how glad you'd be to be friends with that person, you can also go further and kill monsters with them and give them the items you get. The latter, however is not the ideal help, but it's good for your relations and maybe makes two people happy: you and them (if you are fond of helping others).
But sometimes help can get too far. So stop being helpful at the right time. But this depends on the individual case.
2. When you would have the ability to spawn items using a GM command, who would get what from you?
I would absolutely not give anything to anybody (including myself
) - not even for events. If a GM starts giving away items or spawning monsters, they will always be asked to do it again and again. And eventually it's going to be unfair anyway...
3. You are a GM, get online and immediately receive reports about these behaviors by different players about different players. Please order them by your priority in dealing with them:
-advertisement for other servers
-botting
-insults
-not speaking english in public
-scamming
-spamming
(0. maybe deal with the spammer if I am where they are.
otherwise I'd tell the reporting person to put them on ignore and let the server handle the ban, since I'm very busy right now.)
1. I would warp to the suspected botter.
2. I would publicly announce that English is to be spoken in public.
3. I would tell the botter about the time limit.
4. I would ask the insulted person about the severity of it and tell them that I need to deal with the botter first and will attend to them afterwards.
5. I would tell the scammed person that, sadly, scamming cases can't be proven, but nevertheless ask them what it exactly was about.
6. I will tell the person who told me about the advertiser to tell me their name.
7. I would tell the botter that their time is over, send the ban command, and make a screenshot.
8. I would deal with the insults according to the severity.
(8,5. If the spammer is online with another char, I'll deal with them at the same time.)
9. At the same time, I would tell the scam-victim that I'm very sorry for them, but that I can't do anything for them and that they need to be more careful and that they shouldn't blindly trust people. (If what I'm saying is true, that is
)
10. I'd deal with the advertiser
11. At the same time I'd make the report about the botter on the forums.
4. A player disagrees with your decisions and starts to insult you in public. How would you react?
First of all, I would try to not feel insulted - they might have reasons. If they don't have, why should I take it personal? I'm only doing my job and did what I thought was right. Or well, maybe they are just generalising GMs and are actually mad about some different GM or maybe about the system.
That was the part on what to think and how to deal with insults for myself.
The other part is how I'm going to react:
If the person seems to be someone you can have a conversation with, I will ask them why they think I'm doing wrong (maybe I'll ask that anyway, even without the prospect of success
). When a conversation has started, I will wait with the(/a mild) warning about the abuse until the conversation is over. If no conversation is happening, I will simply warn them about insulting people. If they don't stop after several warnings, I'll ban them for an appropriate amount of time.
Well, I hope I didn't forget anything.