Muting

Staff++ adds the ability to mute players. Next to the permanent mute command it also adds the tempmute command. With every mute a reason must be given why this player is getting muted.

Configuration

mute-module:
  # Whether or not the plugin will use "/mute player" features.
  enabled: true
  # Will the player know he is muted.
  default-soft-mutes: false
  # Commands that get blocked when a player is muted
  blocked-commands:
      - msg
      - whisper
      - tell

Permissions

Permission	Description
staff.staffplus.mute	Permission for muting a player
staff.staffplus.tempmute	Permission for temporarily muting a player
staff.staffplus.unmute	Permission for unmuting a player
staff.staffplus.mute-bypass	Permission for bypassing being muted
staff.staffplus.mute-notifications	Permission to receive notifications when someone is muted/unmuted
staff.staffplus.mute-override-softhard	Permission to use the -soft/-hard option when muting players. See soft/hard mutes

Commands

Command	Description
/mute [player] [reason] [-soft?] [-hard?]	Permanently mute a player
/tempmute [player] [amount] [unit] [reason] [-soft?] [-hard?]	Temporarily mute a player
/unmute [player] [reason]	Unmute a player

Soft/Hard Mutes

Staff++ provides two ways of muting. Mutes where the player will be notified he is muted, we call this hard mutes. And mutes where the player has no idea he has been muted, we call this soft mutes.

By default all mutes are hard mutes but this can be changed with the default-soft-mutes configuration property.

mute-module:
  # Will the player know he is muted.
  default-soft-mutes: false

You can override the default mute type by specifying a -soft or -hard option when muting players.

/mute playername To much spamming -soft

Even though a soft mute will not notify the player that he has been muted. There is no easy way to fake the blocked-commands of the mute configuration. If a player executes one of the blocked commands nothing will happen so he might figure out something is going on.

Restricting tempmute duration

The tempmute command can also be configured to restrict the duration a staff member can use for a mute. Give the staff member and extra permission with a duration limit as suffix. Example: staff.staffplus.tempmute.limit.2w , with this permission a staff member can only issue a mute for a maximum duration of 2 weeks.

A staff member must have both permissions to use the command. So for a 2 week duration limit the permissions needed are:

• staff.staffplus.tempmute

• staff.staffplus.tempmute.limit.2w

Possible time values:

• s = second

• m = minute

• h = hour

• d = day

• w = week

• M = month

• y = year

Time values cannot be combined. For example this is invalid: ".1m30s" instead type ".90s"

Extending/reducing mute duration

A mute duration can be extended or reduced by the following commands:

/mute-reduce [player] [amount] [unit] /mute-extend [player] [amount] [unit] This command can also be limited in duration the same way a tempmute is limited. Giving the player the following 2 permissions will limit the extension duration for example:

• staff.staffplus.extendmute

• staff.staffplus.extendmute.limit.2w

When extending a mute, the staff member cannot extend the mute further than his tempmute limit will allow. This is to prevent a staff member spamming an extend command. This means that if a player is muted for 2 months. His mute cannot be extended by a staff member whose tempmute limit is 3 weeks for example.

Examples

Permanent muting

/mute [player] [reason]

/mute playername He was bothering me

Temporary muting

/tempmute [player] [amount] [unit] [reason]

/tempmute playername 15 MINUTE He was bothering me

The duration of the tempmute is specified by [amount] [unit]

Amount must be a positive number > 0 and unit must be one of the following:

• SECOND

• MINUTE

• HOUR

• DAY

• WEEK

• MONTH

• YEAR

The tempmute command can be delayed by adding a -D option to it. This will delay the command until the player muted will come online

Unmuting

/unmute [player] [reason]

/unmute playername We are friends now

Another plugin is overriding the /mute, /tempmute, /unmute

It is possible that another plugin like 'essentialsx' might get priority over the mute, tempmute and unmute command. To prevent this we suggest the same solution as is proposed by EssentialsX.

Configure your server aliases in such a way that the mute commands from Staff++ will always be used. This can be done by editing the commands.yml file and specifying your aliases there.

To enable Staff++ mute commands this would be done in this way:

aliases:
    mute:
    - "staffplus:mute $1-"
    tempmute:
    - "staffplus:tempmute $1-"
    unmute:
    - "staffplus:unmute $1-"

More info on the bukkit wiki

Integration

The discord integration plugin supports notifying to a discord channel whenever a player gets mute/unmuted.