XanderDox - Moderator Application

[XanderDox]

Byond ID: XanderDox

Colonial Marines Character: (se)Bastian Corden (Bridge Officer, MP, XO) , Carter Mason (Marine), Markus 'MEDIC' Aberlane (Marine Medic), Istanbul Embaria (CE and RO) .

Age: 15 (I am turning 16 in literally a month, so I hope this isn't too much of an issue?)

Gender: Male

Timezone: Eastern Time Zone (UTC-05:00)

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate?

From 8AM-3PM I have school, so from 3PM to about 3AM I am clear for moderating. I am completely free on weekends.

Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)?

I do actually. I was a mod and later senior admin on the first colonial marines server, hosted by Captain English, then an admin on his second rendition of CM.
I was then Forum Manager and Admin for Smokebud420's CM, and once host of it for two days.

Oh, and I was a Forum Administrator for an author on a forum dedicated to their books, as well an an Op on their IRC.

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers?

Have you had an application to Colonial Marines or New Eden denied before?

Negatory.

Are you currently a staff member elsewhere (not just SS13)? If so, where?

Nope

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on Colonial Marines?

No.

If a player was shooting everyone in briefing at round start how would you deal with the situation?

First, I'd start by monitoring the situation, and see if MP's are able to stop the marine and then talk to them once they've been handled, if they are doing too much damage to fellow marines, I'd instantly go for a freeze/weaken (if this server has that verb, most do now) and instruct MPs via LOOC to just brig them for now . Then I'd ask them what their reasoning was behind opening fire on their fellow marines. Depending on their answers and the attitude they give me, I'd dole out a 24 hour ban, warning or a longer ban if required, such as if they were extensively rude via Ahelps.

You notice that a xeno is breaching the Nostromo and is unable to seal it with resin. How would you deal with this and what punishment would you give for a first offender?

Firstly, I'd ask that an Admin if any are on seal the breach quickly, then I'd message the Xeno and ask them what their intent was behind making a breach in the first place. If they were purposefully trying to cause a bad situation for players, I'd probably give them a stern and official warning and add it into their notes, if they were being rude or snappy, anywhere from an hour to 24 hour ban. If they were new and didn't realize that they weren't sure of the aliens abilities, I'd just tell them to be careful, point them in the direction of the wiki, specifically the aliens section and not add it into their notes.

The marines want the nuke codes to detonate the Nostromo because they claim they are losing too many marines. There are currently 4 aliens and 20 marines in your /who. What do you do?

CENTRAL COMMAND ANNOUNCEMENT

Attention Marines

You have requested a code that could turn the entire Nostromo, a very expensive station, into complete dust. Our LRS (Long-Range Scanners) show that there are between 1 to 10 hostile elements remaining on station, where there are an estimated 20 Marines.

Get your thumbs out of your mouths and MOVE OUT MARINES.

A Sulaco Medic has made several napalm grenades and hands them out to marines. One of the marines throws the grenade into Logistics. There are no admins or other moderators online. What do you do?

Firstly, I'd make an OOC announcement that all napalm grenades are to be placed in a disposals unit, and that anyone having one is liable for a warning/ban . Then, I'd freeze/weaken the Medic and Marine and ask all current players to move them somewhere safe and to ignore them while I deal with the issue. I'd ask the Sulaco Medic why he created the napalm in the first place when it is against the rules, depending on their responses and previous history, punishment would range from a very stern warning and added notes, to a three day ban for deliberate distribution of griefing materials to even a permanent ban if this is repetitive behaviour.

To the Marine, I'd ask them why they deliberately used a banned weapon on a non-hostile. After investigating, they'd receive a 1-3 day ban based on past behaviour (notes) . I'd then heal anyone affected by the napalm.

What would you do if a player started to talk about the things he did to your mom last night?

I'd give them a single warning to cease their negative behaviour, if it continued, I would first mute them from all OOC/IC channels besides Ahelp. I would then review their notes for any previous behaviour similar to this, and if there was on the record, previous notes about rudeness, then I would issue a permanent ban. If there was no past history, I'd tell them they are going to be banned for three days to cool down, and that if in three days, if they still have the same behaviour, they will most likely receive a permanent ban, I'd then update their notes.

Any additional information you'd like to add?

I only started playing the Alpha itself like a week ago, but I've been playing all the other CM incarnations since the very first one, I'm familiar with the community and it's dynamic as a whole

Oh and I bolded the questions to make them more noticeable from the answers, hope you don't mind!

[Evilkyle24]

-1

16 Posts?
I've never heard of you and you registered a month ago.

[Potatohboi]

+1 I'm sure i renember you from NSS aurora,nice guy.

[XanderDox]

-1

16 Posts?
I've never heard of you and you registered a month ago.

I'm from the incarnations of CM that occurred before and just as New Eden took control of it, I senior admined, admined, and modded for them all. I hadn't registered on the new forums because I didn't intend on coming back until I tried a round of the Alpha and enjoyed it.

The last time I was staff on CM was right before New Eden took it over. The old, faithful CM members should remember me, I go way back to the ages of Coronel and SirOctagon.

[SASoperative]

-1 mate. Neutral at this time. I have never heard of you nor do I have any clue who you are, I have been in the SS13 community for nearly 8 years now and this is the first I have really heard of you. I have seen you in game somewhat but not much... To be effective staff the playerbase needs to know who you are and staff need to know who you are otherwise your only getting half the job done which is enforcing the rules.
I have been around since the near beginning of our server and I honestly do not remember you. Also 16 posts is not alot, Keep in mind staff must be active on forums.

[Mordrehel]

Extra points for the differing characters divided via departments. Lets me know you have a better idea for RP than some of the other applicants.

As for the way you deal with things there were two things 1) You used a admin only command and a global announcement to deal with a secure message to USCM command 2) The 'ur mum' situation, I think you were being a little over the top especially with the idea of a perma ban (perma bans are made by request to the heads of staff anyways, mods shouldn't be issuing them).

However, if you start being a bit more active I'd be happy to give you my +1

Neutral for now.

[XanderDox]

@SASOperative

You've been around since the beginning of Colonial Marines? Or of New Eden's Colonial Marines? The very first incarnation of CM was roughly 2 years ago, which was started by CaptainEnglish, otherwise known as Tom, and proceeded to work on CM up until it was handed over to New Eden.


@YellowDudesNameThatIsntInEdit

On the 'ur mom' thing, I'd only suggest a permaban (didn't know mods weren't able to now) if they had a history of this behaviour. Great communities shouldn't harbour toxic members.

And, I also wasn't aware that CC Announcements were only admins, in that case I'd respond to the fax instead, I was just going off how I've seen other staff here handle requests for the nuke and such, I've never actually received a direct response from USCM, just announcements referring to messages.

[XanderDox]

And I do plan on being far more active lately, as I've rekindled my passion for Aliums and Muhrines.

[Biolock]

Also I don't know that leaving CM and then coming back when it becomes super popular, is really the tree you want to bark up anyway.

[SASoperative]

I have been around since the near start of SS13 I have been a part of the SS13 community for almost 9 years now, But if you honestly have thoughts of becoming a staff my suggestion is to get more active on the forums. This is a very common issue as to why we made the two week old rule, We do it so people who have been in the community for a while (Preferably actually around in the forums) can apply, We like to get to know people before we give them staff positions. You get more active on the forums I don't have to much of a issue of going +1 in the future. Same for I played a round on CM alpha and liked it than applied. We got alot of those from previous staff who were also denied.

[Kyrac]

Most of these answers are decent, although you should know your place as a Moderator and understand that you'd lack the capability to Permanent ban(We also got some protocol behind it). As Mordrehel said, get some activity and then I'll give you my +1 as well.

Until then, Neutral

With new and different things that're around here, we'd be more than happy to teach you how to Moderate here if you make it.

[Feweh]

The guy has barely any community involvement, popped up out of nowhere and applied to Moderation.

Part of being on the staff team is being involved and knowing what's going on in the community.

Anyone can write decent answer's to these generic questions, especially when you just have to look back on previous accepted application.

-1 - A big part of a application is for people to have at least an idea of who you are and not one of your character names are familiar

[UnknownMurder]

-1

I don't know who you are to trust you. You seem fairly new, as if you just returned from the past.

[Felkvir]

-1

I recognize your name but you only came back now..? Like what... Why. Why exactly now? Eh ... Your idea to handle the player trying to insult you is also off, as mentioned way too over the top ..

[1138]

Hi there, 1138 here. Xander would know me as Delta, however, from Aurora. And perhaps by a few other names, but I'd rather not go into detail there.

Awhile back on Aurora you applied as forum moderator in order to, in the perception of the staff over there, clear up the backlog regarding forum conduct and attempt to mediate and defuse the conflict that occurs over shitposting.

A bold goal, right? Well, it was, sort of.

As you were given your trial period, a bit of controversy sprouted up over the instance in which you enforced the rules over incidents that were long-passed and were never dealt with by the original administration and moderation teams... whose duty is to deal with reports and shitstorm threads in a timely fashion, and regulate what goes on in the moment, both on-server and on the forums.

At least, that was my impression, even though the staff there didn't even possess a written modus operandi or a staff Code of Conduct. Which... rather shocked me, when the Head Admin over there told me it was the case. But, then again, not really, given how I've seen staff much, much worse than you screw up their job on Aurora.

To apply some additional context: http://aurorastation.org/forums/viewtop ... =40&t=3197

Righty, so the issue I had with that was the lack of staff transparency and lack of communication on your part. Not to mention the fact that 'clearing up the backlog' shouldn't have really meant 'I'll issue a warning for an offense that occurred far back into a month, and see how it goes from there.' Personally, I was rather confused, as this decision seemed rather inconsistent with how the staff as a whole operated. Granted, my general opinion is that the Aurora staff operate on what cases they find convenient for them to deal with rather than dealing with everything on a case-by-case basis. I appreciated that you tried to differ from that rather lazy modus operandi that was destined for failure, but I still found it rather odd that someone in an authority position would go ahead and issue misconduct notes based on a heated topic that occurred a month prior to the warning.

I implore the rest of the staff to wait a bit, I'll come back to this thread when I have more to say.

Think on it, would you, Xander?

[Dea Tacita]

Eh, I was staff on a server Xander played on for quite awhile, and While I doubt my words have any weight around here at all, Xander can pretty much be described as Explosive, temperamental and extremely emotional. Which isn't exactly the best combination for a member of any administrative group to have, he's tried on other servers to be staff (Aurora mainly) and pretty much failed due to habit of being overly emotional and tendency to power-trip. He's a nice enough guy and all, but I really doubt he's changed enough for it to be worth risking it in my opinion.

[Lostmixup]

I personally find your ban times a little aggressive (a perma ban for the mother insult, even with past notes seems a little harsh), but the answers are overall alright.

My larges issue is that you don't seem very active on the forums. Being active in the community, in my opinion, is one of the most important things for moderators and it shows that they can, and will be, active when they can be. I find your activity on the forums to be not quite up to my standards personally, and I don't recognize your character name from in game at all (I play XO most of the time); perhaps we've just never ran into each other due to playing at different times, but still I'll have to give you a -1.

TLDR Version: -1 cause of post count.

[Lucyz]

Neutral learning towards -1, I will leave this open for a week or so and then we can re-vote based on your activity on the forums and in-game also to see how you are as a player.

[apophis775]

Age is below minimum...


Also, I hear some worrying reports from you. I will contact the aurora hosts.

[apophis775]

I've contacted aurora and done some additional research.

This is DENIED.

This topic will be removed in a few hoours, if anyone else has any final input, give it now.