Userlevel

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There are basically 2 different ideas behind the system. First to reduce the power of some very annoying people who do more harm than good to AniDB or are just a pest to deal with. Second to give some trustworthy users more responsibility in areas where they might be useful to the whole of AniDB. This is meant to speed up the process of creqs and keep the overall quality of the ever increasing data constant and maybe improve it even.

Implementation

To achieve those goals a role system was implemented. Every user has a primary and a secondary role.

Possible primary roles are: (sorted from lowest to highest)

1. Tard
2. Newbie
3. Beginner
4. User
5. Advanced User
6. Mod
7. Senior Mod
8. Admin

Primary Roles

Level -1 - Tard

Users who have shown they are incapable to be of any use to anyone end up here. This level is manually enforced by mods.

How to advance to the Next Level?

-impossible-

Restrictions

• can't do creqs
• can't add new files, anime, episodes or anything else to AniDB

(* can't comment on reviews) <have to ask exp/check myself> (* can't comment on releases) <have to ask exp/check myself>

Level 0 - Newbie (currently inactive)

Meant for new registered users, who most likely don't really know what AniDB is or what they can do here.

How to advance to the Next Level?

?

Restrictions

• can't add new files, anime, episodes or anything else to AniDB
• can't comment on reviews
• can't comment on releases

Level 1 - Beginner (currently inactive)

1 week has passed and if they are still interested in AniDB (actually if they were from the start they will stay) they advance to the next level. they still get their rights restricted compared to normal users, because they

• might add bad stuff, because of lacking knowledge about AniDB

How to advance to the Next Level?

?

Restrictions

• can't add new files, anime, episodes or anything else to AniDB

Level 2 - Normal User

Normal user are the base of AniDB. They have the standard rights they used to have in the previous system

How to advance to the Next Level?

Currently it's only possible to advance to the advanced users if a mod manually sets it.

Rights

• maintain MyList
• maintain MyPlace
• add content to AniDB
• do creqs

Level 3 - Advanced User

Trustworthy users with more responsibility in areas where they might be useful to the whole of AniDB.

How to advance to the Next Level?

Only possible if a mod or admin sets it manually.

Rights

• is excluded from the web Anti-Leech Protection (APIs excluded)
• can get a secondary rights class assigned to him to gain specialised rights
• get hop (%) rights on IRC

Level 4 - Mods

Newbie Mods are rights restricted in a few areas compared to their senior mods counterpart, but still are more powerful compared to advanced users.

How to advance to the Next Level?

Only possible if an admin sets it manually.

Rights

• grant/deny creqs
• edit all files/anime/episodes
• delete files/episodes/companies/categories
• can use blacklist/changelog/userinfo
• can moderate the forum
• get sop (&) rights on IRC

Level 5 - Senior Mod

Restricted to very few people who gain almost full access to AniDB's data.

How to advance to the Next Level?

Only possible if an admin sets it manually.

Rights

• wipe anime
• move/merge files(/episodes once we get that ;))
• can ban user
• can use categories (add new languages and stuff)
• can set userlevel
• can get access to AniDB sourcecode/cvs mail
• assign primary and secondary roles to user

Level 6 - Admin

Congratulations sir you made it to the top.

How to advance to the Next Level?

Only possible if an admin sets it manually.

Rights

• moderate user (delete accounts)
• add new secondary and primary roles
• other stuff mere mortals can only dream of

Secondary Roles

All secondary roles skip the need for a creq where it would be required; the change may be filed as a mod edit instead. So, where it says an anime maintainer can edit anime, it is implied that an anime maintainer can edit anime with changes going through as mod edits instead of regular creqs; in essence, they're mod rights insofar as the actions described for each role are concerned.

Anime Maintainer

• can edit anime

Character Maintainer

• can edit characters

Character Relation Maintainer

• can add/edit/delete character-character and character-anime relations, including seiyuu assignments

Creator Maintainer

• can edit creators

Credit Maintainer

The description is missing or severely incomplete. If you can, please help by explaining it.

CREQ Commenter (not used? normal users have those rights already)

• can see all creqs on the creq page
• can comment on all of those to help mods finish creqs faster

CREQ Handler

• can grant/deny creqs on the DB tables they have handler for

Ep Maintainer

• can edit episodes

File Maintainer

• can add/edit/delete files, streams, file-episode relations, and file-file relations

Forum Mod

• can moderate the forum

Group Leader (not used?)

• can edit all files of a specific group
• can set releasestatus of a specific group
• can edit the grouppage of a specific group

Group Maintainer (not used?)

• can edit the grouppage of a specific group
• can set releasestatus of a specific group

GroupStatus Verifier (not used?)

• can change the status for a release manually to any possible state (ongoing, dropped, complete, finished)
• can permanently set states to deactivate auto-generated states

Language Verifier

• can add/edit/delete anime/episode titles in their language
• can grant/deny creqs for anime/episode titles in their language
• can set the verified flag for anime/episode titles in their language

Manager-san

• can edit clubs
• can set permissions for club members, except demote from admin
• can add/edit/delete club relations

Mini Forum Mod

• can moderate specific areas of the forum

ModReport Checker (not used? perhaps just hidden?)

• gets access to the minimod reports

Song Bird

The description is missing or severely incomplete. If you can, please help by explaining it.

Tag Maintainer

• can add/edit/delete tags, tag names, and tag-entity relations