ParakeetPanzer - Moderator Application

[ParakeetPanzer]

Byond ID: ParakeetPanzer

Colonial Marines Character: Yaikantai Beowulf

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Timezone: Eastern

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate? 40

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? /tg/station

What are the 3 biggest servers you play on besides CM? /tg/station, Urist McStation, Lifeweb

Have you had an application to Colonial Marines before? No.

Are you currently a staff member elsewhere (not just SS13)? If so, where? No.

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.

Are you familiar with the chat program Slack (its use is required)? Yes.

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.
Inform them of negligent dispersal. If they do not comply with proper ROE then remove them from the server.


2. The Sulaco has a breach to space.
Investigate the circumstances resulting in the breach into space. If they are legitimate then do not interfere; if not then find the offenders, punish them, and fix the breach.


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.
Inform them that dispersal of the nuke codes at such at time would be unwarranted.


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.
Investigate any grounds for lethal force. If lethal force was not warranted then remove the offenders.


5. A played is starting to talk about the things he did with your mom last night over Ahelp.
Inform them of the proper usage of ahelp. If they continue to insult my mother then ban them.


6. You notice a marine with a name that doesn't fit our naming rules.
Inform them that their name does not comply with the server's naming rules. If they do not comply, then remove them from the server. I also may manually change their name in the meantime.

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.
Inform them that it is the rule and if they would like to dispute it then defer to the forums.


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.
Tell them to refrain from carrying weapons as a noncombatant. If they do not comply and remove their weapons then I will remove them from the server.


8. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.
Investigate the grounds for surgery and if it is warranted then allow them to proceed. If not then warn them from gratuitous surgery.


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?
To stir conflict I would initialize an event driving the marines or aliens to confront one another.


10. The round ends, and a marine starts unloading his weapons on other marines.
Inform them that although the round has ended, they may not


11. A marine who has recently awoken is using soap to slip other marines.
Tell them to stop that.


12. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why, he said it was because the other marine had punched him.
Inform them of the proper escalation procedure (Argument > Physical contact > Melee weapons > Guns). If they show unwillingness to adhere to the proper procedure then remove them.



Any additional information you'd like to add?

[slc97]

First off, you got put your actual byond id in the title.

Second off, I have never seen you in game so I'm going basically just off of your application here.

Third off, You pretty much fail to mention notes and investigations for most of the questions. Most of your answers involve removing them from the server instead of possibly just warnings and what-not. I'll go through a couple of your questions by number and let you know the biggest mistakes here.
3. Only head staff can give out nuke codes.
5. You could just warn them and mute their Ahelp
8. A squad medic doing surgery is never warranted.
10. Immediate 3 hour ban.
11. Investigate the situation. See what round time it is. Check their notes. All that good stuff.
12. Investigate the situation around this. Was there any RP? Talk to everyone involved and everyone involved and everyone who saw.

It's gonna be a -1 from me.

[Aetsuki]

Pretty much what Slc said. I've never seen you ingame, your forum account is under an hour old, your answers are vague, and the few that had specifics included unnecessary bans. Theres alot that also involve powers you dont have as moderator, events and name changing to name a few. I feel a ban for a player PMing about your mother is unnecessary, as well as interfering with the soap unless its particuarly intrusive. Those may be more minor than what Slc noted, but notable all the same. Overall, -1 from me.

[ParakeetPanzer]

First off, you got put your actual byond id in the title.

Second off, I have never seen you in game so I'm going basically just off of your application here.

Third off, You pretty much fail to mention notes and investigations for most of the questions. Most of your answers involve removing them from the server instead of possibly just warnings and what-not. I'll go through a couple of your questions by number and let you know the biggest mistakes here.
3. Only head staff can give out nuke codes.
5. You could just warn them and mute their Ahelp
8. A squad medic doing surgery is never warranted.
10. Immediate 3 hour ban.
11. Investigate the situation. See what round time it is. Check their notes. All that good stuff.
12. Investigate the situation around this. Was there any RP? Talk to everyone involved and everyone involved and everyone who saw.

It's gonna be a -1 from me.

From my experience moderating in SS13, most situations are unprecedented. I know that I have to look at the circumstances behind the situation before I can take any sort of response against it. Head staff may not be available during that time or offenders might have prior notes to take into consideration.

For every offender I would have to read their notes and investigate the details of what they've done. Covering every possibility and action for each paragraph is impossible. That is why I could not say with certainty the correct verdict for each offense, except to remove the player (whether by kick, ban, etc)

Also, I fixed the title. My bad

[Aetsuki]

Even then, you can take educated guesses for the app. We dont expect you to use this as a guide as staff, and refer to it under the idea that youll experience these exact situations. The ides is that people and staff will get a chance to tell if youre overly harsh or if youve got a proper understanding of punishment times

[Snypehunter007]

For every offender I would have to read their notes and investigate the details of what they've done. Covering every possibility and action for each paragraph is impossible.

While it isn't exactly impossible, it is time consuming,

Your application is either incorrect in procedure, missing key rules (rule #6)(marine-specific rule 9-Squad Medic)(etc.), or extremely bare bones. You are missing quite a few things that are listed in the staff protocols page and the rules page itself, which are both posted on the in "Staff Applications" page in bold letters.

I am going to have to give my -1.

[freemysoul]

Subpar Application AT best, little or no information on the summary sample investigations, MOST of these answers are incorrect at best and you failed to change Your_Byond_Name - Moderator App to your byond key before being notified.

Not trying to be rude but I feel that if we did let you into staff that we would spend most our time trying fix what you did wrong, Sorry but it is a definite negative from me.

[TR-BlackDragon]

Right now we currently have enough Mods, Also as other staff had said This isnt that great of a application so for the time being i am going to have to deny this application.