RobBrown4PM - Moderator Application

[RobBrown4PM]

Byond ID: RobBrown4PM

Colonial Marines Character: Roberto 'Taco' Moreno'

Age: 32

Gender: M

Timezone: MDT, UTC-7

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate?
Depends on where I'm at in my rotation. Every 4 days I work, then I go on my days off for 4. On my days on I'll be able to get 4-8hrs in. On my days off I'll be able to get in 16-24hrs.

Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)?
No

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers?
Started playing back roughly around '15, so if the Sulaco counts, then yes. Otherwise, no.

What are the 3 biggest servers you play on besides CM?
Just Paradise, but haven't for a while.

Provide links to any previous Colonial Marines applications that you've made:
Have an ongoing Commander Whitelist app.
viewtopic.php?f=141&t=16085

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?
Got a ban from your over zealous Roboadmin, Aphophis fixed it.

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on ANY server? If so, which server, when, and what for?
Paradise, 3 day ban + Sec perma ban maybe 2 years ago. Both since lifted. Was HoS, was super tired and didn't read the chat box when some random started firing his laser tag gun at me. In response I shot him dead.

Are you familiar with the chat program Slack (its use is required)?
No, but I can learn it quite easily I imagine.

Common Staff Situations:
Write a description of what you would do in each of the following situations. Do not write on the same line as the situation - use the space below it or make space as needed. Failure to do this proves your inability to follow instructions and your application will be automatically denied.

1. A player randomly shoots someone at round start and MPs have detained him.
Engage in a conversation with the perpetrator and find out what occurred, while also looking in to their notes
If it was an accident and they have no history of this sort of behavior then remind them of the rules regarding opening up on friendlies. Also, add it in their notes AND direct them to speak with a mentor and read the wiki if their new. I would also make sure to Aheal the victim.
If the perpetrator has a history of this type of behavior, or they're a griefer in general, I would apply for a lengthy ban. I would also coach them and try to educate them on finer points of why we have the rules that we do, and why we are asking them to take some time away, in hopes that they return a better player.

2. The ship has a breach to space and a bunch of players have died or are dying as a result.
This obviously depends on the situation. If it's caused by a griefer I would look in to their notes and look to file a ban. For those that were effected I would Aheal. If it's caused by the DS I would wall the effected area off. If it's caused by a pred I would wall the effected area off as it would put to much pressure on the sever. I'm not even sure the Almayer can even be breached anymore, can it?

3. You see a player walking around the ship naked and clearly lost.
I would hook the person up with a mentor and direct them to our wiki. If no mentors are on I'll take care it my self. I love helping new players.

4. A player is being very rude to you in Adminhelps and requesting to speak to an Admin+ staff member.
Players don't get the luxury of choosing who which admin/staff they speak to. I would try and solve their problem, however, if they continue to refuse my assistance I would cease the conversation. If they continue to escalate then I will put it in to their notes. If they are an outright dick then I would look to file for a temp ban under rule 1.

5. You notice a player with a name that doesn't fit our naming rules. The player is arguing that: They've used the name for several years, no one has told them to change it before, and that they didn't know it was a rule.
I would check to see if that person is new. If they are, or simply weren't aware of the naming rules and have no history, then I would change their name for them to something appropriate. I would then note it and give them a overview of the naming rules and direct them to our wiki. If they have indeed been playing for a while, and have somehow gotten away with it, I would inform them of the rule and change their name, hopefully with little to no blow back. In any case I would educate them on the rule.

6. You see a Maintenance Tech running around in armor and carrying a rifle. The security level is green with no threat present.
Check their notes and ask them what they are doing. If they are new and don't know the rules then inform him/her of them. If they have a history of this type of behavior and just aren't getting it I would note it and look in to filing for a temp ban. In all cases I would try and educate the person to the point where I would hope they generally come back knowing the rule(s) and a better player.

7. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.
Inform them that medics are not allowed to perform surgery and to get the patient back up to the Almayer for surgery in the medbay. If the player isn't getting it note it and look in to getting a temp ban filed. Also, educate them so they come back a better player.

8. The round is stagnating. There are 30 marines and 4 aliens. The marines won't leave the ship, and the aliens won't attack. What would you do, to "encourage" the sides to engage each other?
Yell in to the loud USCM High Command Loudspeaker telling the Marines to get their butts in a groove and to get planetside. God didn't give them life so they could sit around and play cards and quote Socrates. If the situation persists I would contact an online admin and see if they can't speed up the process through some addition to the round.

9. The round ends, a MARINE starts shooting a hostile CLF member and the CLF member Adminhelps complaining he was killed after the round ended.
The CLF are enemies of the USCM. The player would be reminded that he/she is fair game because of this and no further action would be taken.

10. A marine is running around disarming, punching and stealing gear at round start.
Speak with the perpetrator and find out what the issue is. If he's new and has no history then inform of him of the rules and direct him to the rules page and the wiki, also, hook him up with a mentor if he wishes. If the person has a history then note the incident and look to file for a temp ban.

11. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why, he said it was because the other marine had punched him.
Speak to the perpetrator and find out if they know the rules on escalation, or the rules at all. If this is something they have never done before, and are not a griefer, then give him a heavy warning and note it. If this person has a history of griefing or breaking the rules on proper escalation, then I would note it and look to file for a hefty ban. In any case I would educate them so that they hopefully come back a better player.

12. An issue arises that requires Admin+ abilities.
Try and get a hold of an admin via slack and relay the question and or need. As far as I know I would have little or no access to 'abilities'

13. There are minor racist comments going on IC. 9 of the 10 people are laughing and RPing but one player gets offended and Adminhelps about it.
If it's a one off low level racist remark then I would let the let the person know that the situation can roleplay it out IC. If the remark(s) are heavy handed and numerous then I would let the offender know to cut it out and get back to playing the game. If the behavior continues I would note it and file for a temp ban if the person has a history of this type of behavior and or ins't getting it. I will always try and educate the person on the rules so that they come back a better player, this case would be no different.

14. A marine opens fire at round start in briefing killing multiple marines and instantly logs off.
This is a perma ban offence. Note the name and Ckey and file for a perma.

15. You see a player playing a xeno larva/chestburster run towards the frontlines and die.
Contact the player while checking their notes. If this is something the player has never done before, then educate them on it and give them a warning. If the player has a history of griefing or this type of behavior in particular, then I would look to giving them a HEFTY warning and or a xenomorph ban.

16. You see a xeno memeing, saying AYYLMAO, REEEEEE etc in hivemind chat.
Remind the person of the LRP rules concerning Xenos. If they have a history of this type of behavior give them a warning or look to file for a xeno ban depending on the amount of trouble the player has been getting him/herself in to. And as always, try to educate the player so they come back a better player.

17. A xeno player calls the shuttle a "dropship". A different xeno player complains to you that it's metagaming/failRP to call it a "dropship".
Xeno's calling the dropship a dropship is fine. All buildings and areas can be mentioned by their English names while playing as a Xeno. However I would strongly recommend to the player to try to immerse him/herself in the role and have fun with it.

18. A Command staff player at briefing near round-start mentions there are aliens on the planet.
Let the player know that IC the Marines know nothing about the Xenomorph threat on the planet. Watch as the Marines call him/her drunk and laugh at them.

19. A Marine kills another Marine on the EVAC Pod to take the last spot and claims it was RP as he was saving himself.
It's a dick move, however, I can see this being valid RP for the most part. If the person has a history of griefing investigate it further and make note of it.

20. You see a fellow staff member give wrong information in an Adminhelp or incorrectly enforcing a rule.
I would give them a subtle reminder on the information they gave. In regards to a rule being enforced incorrectly:
If the person is of the same rank/position as I, I would let them know that the rule should be enforced in X, Y, Z fashion. If they take it the wrong way or tell me bugger off or w/e I would contact my immediate supervisor.
If the person is a higher rank than I, I would let their immediate superior know and allow them to handle it.

20a. You see a fellow staff member abusing his powers in-game.
Not my monkey, not my circus. I would inform their immediate superior of the issue with dates and times.

21. You see a player talking in OOC chat about what he did with your mom last night.
W/e, it's the internet and people are dumb. Go grab a beer and hope there's a Leafs game on.

Any additional information you'd like to add?
Never been a staff anywhere in SS13, I would like to change that and get some experience under my belt.

Cheers.

[NethIafins]

Jesus Christ these color decisions are giving me a heart attack.

Lets go thru your answers:

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1. Good.
2. Almayer still can be breached. Also I'm being told that predator explosion is fair game, all other explosions and breaches are to fix and heal.
3. Good.
4. Great
5. You may find in notes that we allowed that name. Extremely rare and mostly in regards to the nickname
6. This is IC issue
7. Sure, but you can't do surgery as squad medic. Skill system forbids that
8. You don't have USCM loud speaker, only Admins have. You will have to make due with Subtle Messages
9. Good
10. Alright
11. Ok, but they might've escalated everything properly.
12. Good
13. Good
14. Do not permaban on first offense, but do let others know so we can check if they are multikeying
15. Good
16. Good
17. Good.
18. Good but also warn the command staff and note the incident
19. Good
20. People make mistakes all the time so best course is to remind them in msay or if they ignore it - in PM. Even if they are higher up
20a. Yeup, the only correct answer
21. cool

1 note tho - with all this "educating" stuff, you are going to have a bad time. You won't even believe how argumentative some people are.
Tell them what they did wrong, tell them not to do it again, tell them what they can do instead, dish out the punishment, AND MOVE ALONG. Or your "effectiveness" will be 1 ahelp in an hour otherwise

+1 from me, good stuff

[Dumblike]

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14. But what if this guy has no notes, and checking the logs, it's the first time he ever logged in the server?

18. Would you PM or warn the command guy that said this or let it go with the marines' jokes?

overall good app, but you've left many questions were you can see what's wrong without what you would do, but experience comes from practice

even though I don't see you very often and that's much probably because of our timezones, when I do see, you're pretty nice

+1

[Tisx]

It's time to see how good you are with investigations, Now, don't worry too hard about this, as I already like your app,

So, You are observing the start of a round, When you noticed that in charlie prep that a B18 Crate + the grenade launcher are just laying on the floor in the middle of charlie prep.

You find Charlie spec, who you are expecting to be a B18 shotgunner, but instead you find a Scout spec, You ask the Scout spec (Hereby Spec "Mc" Specface) about the B18 gear in charlie prep and he replies;

(Spec "Mc" Specface) PM: Oh that, Ya, Engineer "Mc" Engieface (Charlie engineer) came to me asking if he could try his engineer token on the spec vendor, It seemed to work. But I never touched the B18 gear once it was out of the vendor.

You check Specface's notes history and it seems pretty good, as his last note was nearly a year again over something pretty small.

After that, you check the B18 crate for fingerprints and find Engieface's prints on them, when you confront him he replies

(Engineer "Mc" Engieface)PM: I was only testing to see if it would work, I never meant for all of that to happen

You check Engieface's note history and find it to be more recent, with several notes in the recent months.

All of the B18s Gear minus the GL and crate are gone, how do you proceed?

[Heckenshutze]

Please change those colors. Please.

I got some questions for you, they are situations that are happening often in the present.

#1 The round has ended, people voted already for the next map and it's about to restart. The Queen makes a LRP announcement. How do you proceed?

#2 You see a xenomorph killing a marine, after doing it, he drags the body and stuffs it inside a disposal chute; What'd you do?

#3 A survivors is spotted by the marines, he refused to go with them so marines assaulted him, arrested him and dragged him to the Almayer. He ahelps you for permission to escape and shoot the marines. What do you do?

[RobBrown4PM]

Jesus Christ these color decisions are giving me a heart attack.

Lets go thru your answers:

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1. Good.
2. Almayer still can be breached. Also I'm being told that predator explosion is fair game, all other explosions and breaches are to fix and heal.
3. Good.
4. Great
5. You may find in notes that we allowed that name. Extremely rare and mostly in regards to the nickname
6. This is IC issue
7. Sure, but you can't do surgery as squad medic. Skill system forbids that
8. You don't have USCM loud speaker, only Admins have. You will have to make due with Subtle Messages
9. Good
10. Alright
11. Ok, but they might've escalated everything properly.
12. Good
13. Good
14. Do not permaban on first offense, but do let others know so we can check if they are multikeying
15. Good
16. Good
17. Good.
18. Good but also warn the command staff and note the incident
19. Good
20. People make mistakes all the time so best course is to remind them in msay or if they ignore it - in PM. Even if they are higher up
20a. Yeup, the only correct answer
21. cool

1 note tho - with all this "educating" stuff, you are going to have a bad time. You won't even believe how argumentative some people are.
Tell them what they did wrong, tell them not to do it again, tell them what they can do instead, dish out the punishment, AND MOVE ALONG. Or your "effectiveness" will be 1 ahelp in an hour otherwise

+1 from me, good stuff

In my job I am geared towards educating people on their mistakes, and boy are there a lot of them. You don't always get the success you want to see out of them, however you can at least say you tried. It wouldn't be optimal to go through life lessons with people in a game, but giving them the verbal and written resources/instructions necessary to make better decisions in the future never hurts.

To follow up on your replies to my answers:

2) This is kinda what I thought in-regards to Predators. I wouldn't levy any charge against them for having an IC device/mechanic that is doing what it is supposed to do. This answers Dumblike's question. Also, is it mandatory to allow the breach to continue in-case of a predsplosion, or are staff allowed to fix it? I'm asking because I'm thinking of the stress it might put on the server.
3) Sounds good, in which case I would make follow up notes stating I talked to them on X date about it as there hadn't been any communication about it in recent memory.
6) Fair enough. I know it's an IC issue, however I've seen people get boinked about it before. I figured most mods at least let them know, but maybe they were repeat offenders? Good to know though.
8) Thought mods had access to HC and QM messages, learning is fun. SM's it is then.
11) True, good to know.
14) So temp ban then and make notes, got it. Unless it's a repeat offence of course, or their a griefer. I'd likely bring in an admin to get advice on what should be done if this was the case.
18) Fair enough. I'll kill two birds with one stone here and say that I would SM them. This answers Dumblike's query as well.
20) Gotchyah, a team needs to stick together and help each other out. Anything relating to rule breaks or outright stupidity and I'll just defer to a superior, mine or theirs, likely both.

It's time to see how good you are with investigations, Now, don't worry too hard about this, as I already like your app,

So, You are observing the start of a round, When you noticed that in charlie prep that a B18 Crate + the grenade launcher are just laying on the floor in the middle of charlie prep.

You find Charlie spec, who you are expecting to be a B18 shotgunner, but instead you find a Scout spec, You ask the Scout spec (Hereby Spec "Mc" Specface) about the B18 gear in charlie prep and he replies;

(Spec "Mc" Specface) PM: Oh that, Ya, Engineer "Mc" Engieface (Charlie engineer) came to me asking if he could try his engineer token on the spec vendor, It seemed to work. But I never touched the B18 gear once it was out of the vendor.

You check Specface's notes history and it seems pretty good, as his last note was nearly a year again over something pretty small.

After that, you check the B18 crate for fingerprints and find Engieface's prints on them, when you confront him he replies

(Engineer "Mc" Engieface)PM: I was only testing to see if it would work, I never meant for all of that to happen

You check Engieface's note history and find it to be more recent, with several notes in the recent months.

All of the B18s Gear minus the GL and crate are gone, how do you proceed?

If he never intended it to happen he would have never have done it in the first place. Taking the equipment proves this, of course I would check his character doll (I presume this is a tool mods have) to see if he has it. If he does have it I would give him a temp ban and heavy warning. His recent bad behavior and his lies don't exactly give him any leeway in the matter. I would also remind him to be up front and honest about situations like this in the future, as he is the only one he is hurting in this matter. Add notes and return/re-spawn gear, however which way mods can do it, or is more effective.

Please change those colors. Please.

Roger wilco

I got some questions for you, they are situations that are happening often in the present.

#1 The round has ended, people voted already for the next map and it's about to restart. The Queen makes a LRP announcement. How do you proceed?

Check their notes and see if they have previous history of Xeno LRP. If they do, heavy warning or temp ban. If they have no notes, or just a couple relating to this issue, I would SM/boink them and give them a warning. Yes it's the end of the round, that doesn't mean the rules cease to exist. Add notes for everything

#2 You see a xenomorph killing a marine, after doing it, he drags the body and stuffs it inside a disposal chute; What'd you do?

Check their notes and boink them. Ask them why they did that. If they have no notes and or didn't know I would remind them that it is considered griefing as it heavily hinders Marines from being revived, and is pretty blatantly meta. If they have a recent history of griefing or behavior like this, I would apply notes, warning and possible temp ban/xeno ban depending on how many notes and or warnings. Note everything

#3 A survivors is spotted by the marines, he refused to go with them so marines assaulted him, arrested him and dragged him to the Almayer. He ahelps you for permission to escape and shoot the marines. What do you do?

Remind him/her that Survivors are allowed to act as hostile towards the Marines. I would encourage them to RP it out and have fun with the role.

[Adralimas]

Pretty solid application, Most issues i have could easily be resolved in the trial. +1 from me!

[Dumblike]

2) This is kinda what I thought in-regards to Predators. I wouldn't levy any charge against them for having an IC device/mechanic that is doing what it is supposed to do. This answers Dumblike's question. Also, is it mandatory to allow the breach to continue in-case of a predsplosion, or are staff allowed to fix it? I'm asking because I'm thinking of the stress it might put on the server.

Breaches caused by predsplosions are rare and shouldn't be fixed most of the time.

[Sir Lordington]

16. Should be a three hour ban on second offence, not a xenoban.

There's a few issues here and there to be ironed out, particularly when it comes to note usage, but that is what trial is for. You responded well to the feedback provided by other staff members and your answers show a decent grasp of the rules.

+1

[ExGame]

Answers are thougt and written out, doesn't have any major issues. You are a good player from my point of view and your note history is pretty okay. All of it are a plus.

I'm gonne give this a +1.

[Solarmare]

The more important issues have been pointed out already with good responses. You seem capable of handling and learning as a trial moderator. I'll give this a +1 as anything else that comes up could be dealt with in the trial, doesn't hurt to ask about something beforehand I suppose.

[Grimcad]

Updated answers look pretty good. I think that with a little training you will make a fine mod.

+1

[slc97]

Accepted. check your inbox.