Mitchs98 Moderator Application

[Mitchs98]

Byond ID: Mitchs98

Colonial Marines Character: Anya Allen

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Timezone: CST

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate? 20

Do you have a Skype account (Skype is REQUIRED)? Yes

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

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers? Yes

What other servers do you play on?
None

What are the 3 biggest servers you play on besides CM?
None

Have you had an application to Colonial Marines before?
Three, four if you count mentor. Which I served as for about a month and a half

Are you currently a staff member elsewhere (not just SS13)? If so, where?
None

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on Colonial Marines?
No

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on ANY server? If so, where and When (roughly)?
No

Waht

Common Staff Situations:
Write a description of what you would do in each situation (BELOW) the situation. If you start it on the same line, I'll assume you can't follow directions and auto-decline your application.



1. A player is firing his weapon in the briefing area near the start of the round.

Determine if they are firing at air or a marine, followed by determining if it was a mis-click based on logs and what the player that fires says. If it was a mutual firefight I'd continue on, seeing as those aren't exactly against the rules without it being random grief. Issue warnings, bans, and direction to the rules were appropriate.


2. The Sulaco has a breach to space.

Figure out who did it, get someone to patch it for starters. Then PM the person who conducted said breach and figure out if it was unintentional or tentional. Issue warnings or bans from there on and direct the person to the rules as well as cite the no breaching rule.


3. The marines want the nuke codes because they claim they are losing too many marines. There are currently 4 aliens and 20 marines in your /who.

Send a M.O.T.H.E.R report stating there are 1-7 hostiles remaining and the marine forces out-number them. In otherwords: Get off your asses and kill them.

4. A Sulaco researcher 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.

Immediately hail for more staff and assess the situation as best as possible by myself. First by contacting the researcher due to Napalm grenades being against the rules and since they are held accountable as well as the person who tosses it. I would then proceed to warn or ban accordingly then move on to who tossed the grenade if no other staff have came online to do so. I'd determine if it was accidental or purposeful and go from there(I have accidentally pulled the pin on a grenade and panicked before myself).

5. A played is starting to talk about the things he did with your mom last night over Ahelp.

I'd simply tell them to stop followed by a mute from ahelp if they ceased and add the incident to their notes. I'm..not an easily offended person.

6. You notice a marine with a name that doesn't fit our naming rules.

I'd direct them towards the naming rule and change it followed by a warning for them to follow the rules and a potential ban if the name is too inappropriate as well as followed by the players conduct.

6a. The marine is arguing that: They've used the name for several years, noone has told them to change it before, and that they didn't know it was a rule.

I'd state ignorance isn't an excuse, as the start up screen clearly states to check the rules as they update periodically. I'd also state it was a blanket rule change and no one, not even staff, is exempt from it.

7. You see a Sulaco Doctor with an M41A rifle strapped to his back running around the briefing area. There are wounded in medbay, and the other doctor is in surgery.

I'd direct them to the rules followed by telling them to drop the rifle and do their job. THey would recieve a warning, ban, or job ban depending on prior history doing such a thing. I would also determine if they were directly running from an alien and if medbay was overran or not.


8. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.

I'd direct them to the rules stating that wasn't an excuse, that it is still against the rules, and tell them they should close them up and get them evac'd to the Sulaco. I would proceed to warn, job ban, or ban as well as add the incident to their notes depending on their note history.

9. The round is stagnating. There are 30 marines and 4 aliens. The marines won't leave the Sulaco, and the aliens won't attack. What would you do, to "encourage" the sides to engage each other?

I would send a M.O.T.H.E.R report suggesting an assault with a bio-scan of 1-8 remaining hostiles and 25-30 remaining marines.

10. The round ends, and a marine starts unloading his weapons on other marines.

Immediately ban them for 3 hours per EORG rule.

11. A marine who has recently awoken is using soap to slip other marines.

I'd wait and see if they're doing it repeatedly or just to a select few friends. If repeated I'd warn them not to do it as it's borderline grief.

12. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why, he said it was because the other marine had punched him.

I'd check the logs and make sure that was the only reason. If it is indeed fact that the marine that was killed punched them once I'd ban the marine that killed the other after telling them precisely why and adding the incident to their notes followed by reviving the dead marine.

Any additional information you'd like to add?

People kept telling me to apply for either mod or Mentor, so I have. I enjoyed my time as Mentor and apologize for going inactive longer than stated, things had came up but I am free once more to staff the server.

[Feweh]

You use to be extremely hostile in-game and we butted heads quite often.
You asked for a chance awhile back to be a Mod and most of us shot you down and myself included. Awhile back you became a Mentor, through that a very valuable member of the staff team and a positive player in-game.

+1

[LordeKilly]

Hey, i've supported you from the get-go as staff and as a player here. From my previous interactions with you, aswell as when you staffed other servers, I think you'd make a great addition to the staff roster.


ayylmao +1.

[Xperia15]

I've seen how you handle ahelps and such, plus you were a moderator here before, and left?

-1

[Mitchs98]

I've seen how you handle ahelps and such, plus you were a moderator here before, and left?

-1

Correction. All of my moderator applications were denied, I was however accepted for mentor and served for over a month. I didn't leave of my own free will, I was demoted/kicked off due to being inactive longer than I stated I would to other staff due to life issues.

[Dragon2323]

Whilst I myself was turned down for complaints of toxicity and over-assertive behaviour; and that - in some people's eyes - putting me away from judgment, I want to say that I remember your actions on Unbound Travels when we worked together. You were a more senior staff member, but you resorted to sucking up to higher staff to gain permissions and glide through the ranks; inevitably going from Trial Administrator to Administrator2 in the blink of an eye near the end of Unbound's lifespan, and not understanding a massive portion of the verbs that you were given access to. It lead to one-sided rivalry whilst we were on staff, and included some other management of Unbound voicing their disdain for you being an Administrator.

Due to this, I'm acting biased upon what I've seen and what I recall. I don't support you becoming a Moderator with Colonial Marines. -1

[Lostmixup]

Whilst I myself was turned down for complaints of toxicity and over-assertive behaviour; and that - in some people's eyes - putting me away from judgment, I want to say that I remember your actions on Unbound Travels when we worked together. You were a more senior staff member, but you resorted to sucking up to higher staff to gain permissions and glide through the ranks; inevitably going from Trial Administrator to Administrator2 in the blink of an eye near the end of Unbound's lifespan, and not understanding a massive portion of the verbs that you were given access to. It lead to one-sided rivalry whilst we were on staff, and included some other management of Unbound voicing their disdain for you being an Administrator.


Due to this, I'm acting biased upon what I've seen and what I recall. I don't support you becoming a Moderator with Colonial Marines. -1

This has been mentioned on literally all his staff apps.

[Mitchs98]

Whilst I myself was turned down for complaints of toxicity and over-assertive behaviour; and that - in some people's eyes - putting me away from judgment, I want to say that I remember your actions on Unbound Travels when we worked together. You were a more senior staff member, but you resorted to sucking up to higher staff to gain permissions and glide through the ranks; inevitably going from Trial Administrator to Administrator2 in the blink of an eye near the end of Unbound's lifespan, and not understanding a massive portion of the verbs that you were given access to. It lead to one-sided rivalry whilst we were on staff, and included some other management of Unbound voicing their disdain for you being an Administrator.

Due to this, I'm acting biased upon what I've seen and what I recall. I don't support you becoming a Moderator with Colonial Marines. -1

Uh..I never once sucked up to anyone? Where did you get this information? You're assuming because I ranked up quickly I did? No. Most of my promotions were either done because 1. That ranked staff was needed at the time or 2. Without my knowing. I, at no point in time, knew that I was going to be immediately given Admin2. The most 'sucking up' I ever did was stating I was willing to do anything to keep the server from crashing and burning to the best of my ability whilst other members of staff jumped ship or did practically nothing. I'm not bashing other staff, whatsoever, but it's the truth. You and a select few others were the only ones that actually bothered to do their jobs properly. I'm also unaware of any kind of rivalry between us? If offering assistance to save a dying server is sucking up, than by all means I did indeed do so.

No one ever came to me and said anything to my face about my time as an administrator until AFTER I attempted to apply here or on reddit. No one has ever told me anything about it whatsoever. And the massive portion of verbs, weren't really that massive. It was a select few that I knew nothing about but quickly learned myself and retain knowledge of to date. Just because I didn't play around on some test server to learn the verbs doesn't actually mean I'm at fault for not knowing them. Staff weren't trained at all, the only way I was able to learn was to either do it myself and hope I didn't fuck anything up when I was needed and no other staff responded to Skype or eventually get lucky and have someone else show me how. Being staff is trial and error. And hell, if you don't error you must be some kind of genius and I applaud you for it.

Had anyone actually come forth and offered valid criticism and advice more than a few times(all of which I took into account every single time and expanded upon) then maybe that would of actually helped. I'm not trying to play the victim and blame everyone else for my problems, don't think that at all. I'm mature enough to see my faults where my faults were due, I don't deny I didn't mess up from time to time as staff. But I'm not some kind of power hungry monster that simply wants staff to feel special like you or several others may think. If I apply for staff, it's because I like the community and the people in it. Not some shiny title and a button to ban all those that oppose me. I'm an active player on this server and value my time here. What makes you think I'd want to risk getting banned just to climb rank and abuse my powers? I fail to see the logic in that.

The ONLY reasons I applied here once more was because I enjoyed my time on staff and helping everyone and because I was asked to by several people at multiple instances, not for my own personal gain but because I was asked and felt I was needed.

[Lostmixup]

At this point I'd like to request that people judge him for his time as mentor here rather than his time at the previous server because that's been brought up and debated on literally all of his staff apps.

[Xenomorph Dominatrix]

I've never seen someone literally DUALWIELDING powerpacks on the first pod down before.

1. In briefing, he started LOOC telling someone off for not speaking English, which is breaking a rule, yes, but the complete hypocrite was doing something himself at the same time - I was a ghost observer, looked at the character and noticed that he was doing this:
   
2. He then did NOT put it in hangar as he said he was going to on LOOC there, once moving to the downstairs level I saw he moved from the dropship to get on the pod instead, I assume thinking that the ghost had stopped watching him - or just because of the very lax attitude some of the mods have with people metagaming, which leads them to do stuff knowing no one will actually stop them.
   
3. I reported this to Grypho before he boarded the pod, who did not do anything to stop him - the 2 dualwielded powerpacks were then taken down to be stacked on a table in engineering on the planet (with a 3rd worn).
   

Short version: He will break the rules as it suits him if he thinks he can get away with it, and lie about it. Pretty much your archetypal 17 year old boy.

[Releasing]

+1. Mitch is a very friendly and helpful player, towards me and others I've observed. I enjoyed them during their time as a mentor, and I see no reason why we shouldn't give them a chance at a moderator position, or even a mentor position again. It's obvious they want to help the server grow and stay regulated, and they're willing to sacrifice some of their freedom and time to make sure it does so. I believe they would be very capable at a moderator job, which is why I give them a +1. Regarding what has been commented above, we all make mistakes, and I know that doesn't justify Mitch's actions, but it's true. If they were in a moderator position, they would take minor rule breaks a bit more seriously, I'm positive.

I see no reason why we shouldn't give you a chance, Mitch. Everyone deserves one.

[Shadowling1232]

As I've only played with this player 10-15 times, It looks like he is a pretty good guy, helpful, friendly, attentive, but does struggle a bit with some rules, offering him a chance to have the ability to look out for active rule breakers (imo) would give him a chance to understand the rules more and learn what he's doing wrong and giving himself a chance to improve.

However, for anyone and everyone reading over this, giving someone an opportunity at things can greatly help themselves improve their behavior and understanding of rules, and everyone can think of a moment where they weren't able to do something, and when they got the opportunity to do it they jumped at it, through that they were able to improve.

After reading up on latest drama, I'd prefer to back out on this one.
Neutral.

Short Version : +1 Water Under the bridge with the UBT drama, give the guy a chance maybe? (Goodluckkid)

[Xenomorph Dominatrix]

That wasn't something that happened a while ago, that was literally YESTERDAY - the issue is that he is a liar, and lied to a whole room of people and saw nothing wrong with that, and tried to be sly about it, and so can't be trusted not to abuse the position to powergame more or other crap - it's the usual reason for teenage boys wanting to be "admin" in anything, it's not about helping people but about wanting authority whilst having very little sense of responsibility... "Rules are for them, not me." See the self-righteous "thank you." comment in the screenshot - that's sociopathy talking.

[Mitchs98]

I've never seen someone literally DUALWIELDING powerpacks on the first pod down before.

1. In briefing, he started LOOC telling someone off for not speaking English, which is breaking a rule, yes, but the complete hypocrite was doing something himself at the same time - I was a ghost observer, looked at the character and noticed that he was doing this:
   
2. He then did NOT put it in hangar as he said he was going to on LOOC there, once moving to the downstairs level I saw he moved from the dropship to get on the pod instead, I assume thinking that the ghost had stopped watching him - or just because of the very lax attitude some of the mods have with people metagaming, which leads them to do stuff knowing no one will actually stop them.
   
3. I reported this to Grypho before he boarded the pod, who did not do anything to stop him - the 2 dualwielded powerpacks were then taken down to be stacked on a table in engineering on the planet (with a 3rd worn).
   

Short version: He will break the rules as it suits him if he thinks he can get away with it, and lie about it. Pretty much your archetypal 17 year old boy.

Let me just clear something up. I've ALWAYS carried two powerpacks down to the FOB if I'm lucky enough to recieve that many. I had three spare at the time, one I was DRAGGING. I put the drug one in the hangar, as I said I would. At no point in time does that rule say you can't carry two powerpacks, merely drag an extra one around for use. That would be the equivilant of disallowing a standard from carrying two rifles, two knives, and two magnums. I can't fire my smartgun without stashing those packs somewhere, making me vulnerable, so do tell how exactly that's benefitting me? Nine times out of ten I'm unable to use the spare one anyway due to reasons such as FOB getting overran, so again how do they benefit me?

Grypho DID contact me, and I explained that I've always been taking two packs down when I had them and no one has contacted me thus far. We also discussed the finer points of the rule specifically stating DRAGGING and my interpretation of it meaniny literally dragging around an extra powerpack behind you actively for quick reloads or because you ran out of hands(which yes, is how I've interpreted it). He agreed the rule was poorly worded and left it at that. Had he told me to chuck one of the powerpacks onto the nearby pod or the Rasputin I would of doneso no questions asked.

I've witnessed you being EXTREMELY salty and critical to marines(mostly myself) doing ANYTHING resembling a rule break, not even beeaking the rules. I've seen you target marines specifically, doing nothing for aliens that break the rules. I personally find you extremely biased and to be targetting myself and the entire marine side for some reason or another, possibly this whole 'marine x alien' rivalry thing. I actively report both sides and ask staff things I'm unsure of for myself, how about you?

[Mitchs98]

That wasn't something that happened a while ago, that was literally YESTERDAY - the issue is that he is a liar, and lied to a whole room of people and saw nothing wrong with that, and tried to be sly about it, and so can't be trusted not to abuse the position to powergame more or other crap - it's the usual reason for teenage boys wanting to be "admin" in anything, it's not about helping people but about wanting authority whilst having very little sense of responsibility... "Rules are for them, not me." See the self-righteous "thank you." comment in the screenshot - that's sociopathy talking.

Now to address this portion. Lets see here. I didn't lie to anyone, if you had actually bothered to check the hangar you would of seen the pack I was dragging placed near the dropship. I didn't try to be sly about anything, I was completely honest to Grypho when he PM'd me. Just because staff don't PM you back for minor issues that aren't technically issues doesn't mean staff didn't deal with it. I was a mentor for a while, don't you think if I wanted to 'abuse my posistion' for powergaming I would of then? I often got captured among other things dealing with issues as a mentor as well as hailing staff to help back then, if I wanted to use my posistion for anything other than to help I clearly would of used it to metagame and tell the marines exactly where everything was or aghost before walking to dangerous areas. So again..I don't see your reasoning.

That supposed 'self righteous thank you' was meant to be sarcastic and a joke. I'd appreciate you not taking things out of context to twist for your own uses, it's not cool whatsoever.

[Lostmixup]

Me personally, I'd give mitches a +1 at this point because he's learned how our server works from being a mentor and generally did his job well enough. He's also way to persistent.

[Xenomorph Dominatrix]

I've ALWAYS carried two powerpacks down to the FOB

This is obviously meta if you'd read the rule about smartgun powerpacks right next to rule about bringing gear lockers down and the reason for it's over-preparing when you don't know you're going to be meeting aliens and having a world war (which someone else with you is also doing in that screenshot of the pod).

The fact that you don't seem to understand why there would be a reason for rules like that, not just the words, seems like another issue really...

witnessed you being EXTREMELY salty and critical to marines(mostly myself) doing ANYTHING resembling a rule break

"Salt" is a thing that usually goes on food, I think you need keep up the English lessons at school there. As for "critical to marines", what you obviously don't know is that I play both sides pretty much equally, unlike you apparently. And mods know that I've reported aliens plenty, and made comments about dickish alien players that drag corpses around to hide them. And devouring. On plenty of occasions. In fact the change to stop corpses being beheaded was put in a day after I made yet another adminhelp reporting people doing it.
Nice try.

Grypho DID contact me

I didn't doubt that, the point I was making is that grypho didn't stop you doing it - that's a big problem with griefers at the moment too, mods will have a chat with someone and let them carry on doing stuff that affects everyone else's round without stopping it in progress with admin sleep or whatever

[Lostmixup]

Our mods do sleep people if they're doing something that directly and immediately affects others, or if they're simply not listening (sleeping a person will make them start to comply a bit). You don't need to sleep for every little thing, that'd be very frustrating if the person being talked to was innocent because they could be looted, killed, etc. Meta/PG usually doesn't need an immediate sleep because it's not immediately affecting other players in a negative way. If they were, say, shooting someone then they'd be knocked out while being talked to.

[Mitchs98]

This is obviously meta if you'd read the rule about smartgun powerpacks right next to rule about bringing gear lockers down and the reason for it's over-preparing when you don't know you're going to be meeting aliens and having a world war (which someone else with you is also doing in that screenshot of the pod).
"Salt" is a thing that usually goes on food, I think you need keep up the English lessons at school there. As for "critical to marines", what you obviously don't know is that I play both sides pretty much equally, unlike you apparently. And mods know that I've reported aliens plenty, and made comments about dickish alien players that drag corpses around to hide them. And devouring. On plenty of occasions. In fact the change to stop corpses being beheaded was put in a day after I made yet another adminhelp reporting people doing it.
Nice try.I didn't doubt that, the point I was making is that grypho didn't stop you doing it - that's a big problem with griefers at the moment too, mods will have a chat with someone and let them carry on doing stuff that affects everyone else's round without stopping it in progress with admin sleep or whatever

The rule about smartgun packs specifically states dragging. Not carrying two extra packs to a FOB for later use, as I said. The person dragging the locker was also instructes to move said locker off and the locker was indeed moved off. I also like how you go directly to insulting my English just because I used slang, that doesn't really help your case and further proves my point you are indeed mad for some reason or another. And yes, I do play both sides. Perhaps not evenly due to the RP for aliens being trash most of the time(which yes, believe it or not RP is the main reason I play this server.), but I do play both sides. It's good to know you don't target one side, however. It would seem we're both in the wrong to some degree for throwing around assumptions at the others goals and character hm?

You know what they say, assumptions make an ass out of you and me. Perfect time for that analogy, wouldn't you agree?

Grypho didn't stop me from doing it more than likely because he agreed with my reasoning? He was the one in power over whether or not I tossed the second pack, not me. He could lf very well told me to do so if he believed it was against the rules, and he clearly didn't or that second pack wouldn't of sat in the chapel all around.

The entire time I was staff, staff handled issues well enough without admin-sleeping every single person breaking a rule. Don't presume staff are doing a bad job just because you can't fully see what's going on from their side.

[Grypho]

Hello,

I don´t think this is the right place to discuss this, but alright. I am not sure why did you make such a big deal out of a minor "issue". Considering your quite aggressive aHelp to me: "What do you have against me?????" after I put your first aHelp to "no response", I assumed it was likely you would have something personal against Mitchs98 and that you wanted to get him in trouble no matter what. This is proven true in this thread, where you attempted to discredit Mitchs98 as rulebreaking liar and attempted to make the applicant look bad. The fact is, nearly every regular player of this community has made minor mistakes, even yourself.

Now about the rule itself. Under the powergaming rule it says: Dragging around extra power-packs (is not allowed). I interpret dragging as either pulling the power pack, or pulling a locker full of power packs with you. I can´t see an issue in someone carrying ammo in their hand, if we are speaking about enforcement of that rule. Carrying is not dragging in my opinion.

Now to the application itself, I think you deserve a second shot in staff. +1.

[Xenomorph Dominatrix]

"What do you have against me?????" after I put your first aHelp to "no response"

That was after you replied: "Because I see no reason to reply to you." which seemed really unnecessarily hostile when I'm just trying to report someone breaking the rules? In fact the only other time I have reported this guy is the time I remember when he was commander and started shouting on command radio to tell everyone to repeatedly ping-pong the dropship "immediately when the cooldown is up", something I've seen admins step in to stop before (from his bias to playing on one side, I don't think he has the same sense of fair play as people that try both sides evenly).

The rule about smartgun packs specifically states dragging

I feel like you didn't really understand this...

This is obviously meta if you'd read the rule about smartgun powerpacks right next to rule about bringing gear lockers down and the reason for it's over-preparing when you don't know you're going to be meeting aliens and having a world war (which someone else with you is also doing in that screenshot of the pod).

The fact that you don't seem to understand why there would be a reason for rules like that, not just the words, seems like another issue really...

insulting my English just because I used slang

Memespouting/speaking like a troll is rarely a good sign, yeah.

I do play both sides. Perhaps not evenly

Yeah, I figured that one out already. You see everything as "us versus them".

The entire time I was staff, staff handled issues well enough without admin-sleeping every single person breaking a rule

So I did some research, and... wow, this is a goldmine: google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com "mitchs98"

oops_ur_dead 10 months ago
They either don't know how to read logs or intentionally exaggerate what you did to push guilt towards you. Mitchs98 is especially bad about this. I've seen people get frozen and banned because they were near a fight and an admin thought they were involved. I've been involved in fights where Mitchs98 thought I had done a whole lot more than I did, all the while refusing to admit that he was wrong even when he re-read the logs. [..] it's been known to everyone for months that Mitchs98 is a gigantic dumbass but somehow he keeps getting promoted.

Discussion Thread: The Last Year of SS13 (self.SS13) submitted 2 months ago by AutoModerator
Firstasatragedydeveloper 2 months ago*
Mitchs98. This guy embodied everything terrible about Phoenix. He was an awful fucking roleplayer (people have even complained about his character on Colonial Marines) and would freeze entire groups of people because a small fight broke out.

Jtdrow 10 months ago
My SpaceStation 13 experience is mostly limited to BestRP/UT.
Despite the negative views that players on the server have towards the active administration staff such as Mitchs98, Kaedwuff, Maveriknight, LatiosandLatias, etc; these people being on the server is allowing the Unbound Travels Management to get away with being absent at all times.
[..]
The negative attitude for the Unbound Travels staff mentioned here resorts from both Mitchs98 and Kaedwuff refusing to believe they have done anything wrong when it's voiced productively.

Firstasatragedy 10 months ago
[..]Multiple admins have confirmed Mitch's incompetence and he still remains on the staff[..]

Requesting Drama (self.SS13) submitted 11 months ago by Crazyhyperway
oops_ur_deadgreatest 11 months ago
Sure, here's a log of Mitchs98, a Phoenix moderator, doing what he does best: being absolutely retarded [..]

CitationNeeded11 11 months ago
[..]he was just plain rude, that isn't necessary in the least. I think that's what bothers me the most about what happened here.

[KeyWii]

After looking at Kyrac's link, gonna have to change to a -1.

[Lostmixup]

That was after you replied: "Because I see no reason to reply to you." which seemed really unnecessarily hostile when I'm just trying to report someone breaking the rules? In fact the only other time I have reported this guy is the time I remember when he was commander and started shouting on command radio to tell everyone to repeatedly ping-pong the dropship "immediately when the cooldown is up", something I've seen admins step in to stop before (from his bias to playing on one side, I don't think he has the same sense of fair play as people that try both sides evenly).
I feel like you didn't really understand this... Memespouting/speaking like a troll is rarely a good sign, yeah.
Yeah, I figured that one out already. You see everything as "us versus them".
So I did some research, and... wow, this is a goldmine: google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com "mitchs98"

He can't freeze people, what.

Once again, most of those are from almost a year ago which is before mitches became a mentor here on server. This information is irrelevant at this point in time, and I've also asked that you keep your opinions of him away from before he became a mentor because that's literally been brought up in every single staff app of his. He did a good enough job as mentor that I'm perfectly willing to let him try his hand at moderator now.

[Jack McIntyre]

Neutral, first thought you were someone who had been on staff for a bit and pretty much screwed up so much it drove me crazy. Chatted with Fluffy though since they were a trial mod alongside them and not the same person so sorry about my previous post. People need to stop using the ravager for a character profile, getting me all confused xD.

[Gelonvia]

I do have to say this people. I personally think all of the playerbase should stop right here with all these posts, for one they don't matter to the final decision, only the Staff Comments do but I know that will be ignored so lets just add onto this then. Added to this leave Ingame situations out of judgement, there is a fine definition between a Ingame Character and the person OOCly. How you play RPly does not contribute to how you handle a given situation, and just because a person once acted a certain way a a while ago does not mean that they are the same person at the given time, and personally I hope Mitch is the same person because I like the fact that he attempts to bring a calm and caring attitude to the Server, mostly due to being surrounded by a rude and greedy playerbase who near 80% of the time complain when they don't get what they want and bash anything they don't like because they want the server runned the way they want and not how it should be. I have seen how Mitch works ingame and I have seen how he treats others OOCly, unless you have done something really shitty (which if you have expect unhappy Staff), then he's very calm and collected on how he handles things treating players and Staff not as Community Members and Gamers but instead viewing us as Human beings and treating us with kindness and respect that a fellow person deserves. I don't know about you guys, but I personally enjoy being treated as a Human being, as a Person with feelings and makes mistakes but also wishes to do good and equally expects nice things to be done onto them in return. That kindhearted treatment is something I see constantly with Mitch and something we need more of in Staff.

+1 to Mitch.