KaiserBlackwood - Moderator Application

[KaiserBlackwood]

Byond ID: KaiserBlackwood

Colonial Marines Character: Andrey 'Riot' Rogovyk

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Timezone: GMT

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate?
6-8

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

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers?
Negative.

What are the 3 biggest servers you play on besides CM?
Paradise Station(previously)

Provide links to any previous Colonial Marines applications that you've made:
None for staff.

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?
Yes

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on ANY server? If so, which server, when, and what for?
Yes, Paradise Station Permaban for violation of rule about non-traitor kills.

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 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.
I will contact player and ask him why he did this, if the situation was resovled ICly, and no one is permanently dead, I will let it flow.
But that event will be marked in his notes.

2. The ship has a breach to space and a bunch of players have died or are dying as a result.
Fix breach with admin powers, then ICly pass a message to Medical that they must pick up wounded and help them. If not possible, will move people inside the ship and help them out.

3. You see a player walking around the ship naked and clearly lost.
If no one is helping person out, Pm him and give directions, after that I will pass that person to mentor.

4. A player is being very rude to you in Adminhelps and requesting to speak to an Admin+ staff member.
Remain calm, and will warn him that he violates Rule 3. And then re-assure him that I am as helpful as other members of staff.

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.
Rules are rules. I will tell player that rule existed always and not being acknowledged of rule doesn't free you from punishment. He will be warned to change name, and if he will violate rule repeatedly, he will be punished.

6. You see a Maintenance Tech running around in armor and carrying a rifle. The security level is green with no threat present.
This is IC situation, so I will let MPs deal with it. But if things get worse, I will intervene.

7. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.
Since Squad Medics have lowest surgery skill, I will warn him that he will do more harm to marine, and possibly will kill him. Thought I will make notes, and if he will keep performing surgery it will result in jobban.

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?
Use HC message for marines to force them to go down and finish the job, if not, they will be punished ICly. As for Xenos, Hive Mother message telling that they all will be devolved into larvas and forgotten on this planet, cut off from Hive must do the job. If they will ignore it, I will manually send Dropships down, to speed up the process.

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.
They are hostile to each other, marines are allowed to kill CLF whenever it's possible.

10. A marine is running around disarming, punching and stealing gear at round start.
If no MPs will handle it, I'd PM player and tell him that he is ruining the game for others, and if he won't stop, it may result in punishment. If it will be continued, it may result in ban.

11. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why, he said it was because the other marine had punched him.
It's violation of rule 14 aka "Do not attack other marines with lethal force unless you have a valid IC reason". Fist fight must not escalate into gunfight. Even if the firing is justified, you are still susceptible to Marine Law.

12. An issue arises that requires Admin+ 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 comments are not completely racist, homofobic, bigoted, and more look like slight piece of black humour I will inform that players in question are not breaking rules. However, if it's real mocking and acting as an asshole, I will inform players that they broke rules and further violations may result in short-term ban.

14. A marine opens fire at round start in briefing killing multiple marines and instantly logs off.
Firstly, I'd check his notes, if there will be said that he was doing that in past, I will ban him. Since he broke rule 14 and rule 11.

15. You see a player playing a xeno larva/chestburster run towards the frontlines and die.
I will PM them and politely ask about what they did, if it was not on purpose and was accident, I will ask them to do not do this again. But if it was done on purpose, I will give them job-ban for short time.

16. You see a xeno memeing, saying AYYLMAO, REEEEEE etc in hivemind chat.
I will inform players that they mustn't do this. If they will not listen I will make notes and warn them, if they keep doing it, I will ban them.


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".
Since Xeno language is like English, it's normal that Xenos sometimes call objects like marines.

18. A Command staff player at briefing near round-start mentions there are aliens on the planet.
Warn him that this is Meta, unless he was informed about this by staff. Also I will inform them that picking important roles just for fun isn't good behaviour and may result in job ban.

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.
As Life or Death choice is is mostly a valid reason to use lethal force.

20. You see a fellow staff member give wrong information in an Adminhelp or incorrectly enforcing a rule.
I would inform my collegue that he is misinforming the player and propose him to correct himself.

20a. You see a fellow staff member abusing his powers in-game.
I will inform heads about this. Staff mustn't abuse powers.

21. You see a player talking in OOC chat about what he did with your mom last night.
I will ignore him, unless he starts harassing other players.

Any additional information you'd like to add?

I know I was permabanned for my behaviour and total violation of rules. But I've changed and now willing to improve the server and playing experience for other players.

[Kavlo]

Answers seem decent, activity is good.
We've had staff before who were previously permabanned and they didn't end up being removed from staff, so it's not like that is a massive red flag.

+1.

[RobBrown4PM]

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2. The ship has a breach to space and a bunch of players have died or are dying as a result.
Fix breach with admin powers, then ICly pass a message to Medical that they must pick up wounded and help them. If not possible, will move people inside the ship and help them out.

Breaches can't really happen any more, IIRC. However, if it does, the one time we should leave things as be is when a Pred goes boom, however rare it is on board the Almayer.


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.
Rules are rules. I will tell player that rule existed always and not being acknowledged of rule doesn't free you from punishment. He will be warned to change name, and if he will violate rule repeatedly, he will be punished.


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?
Use HC message for marines to force them to go down and finish the job, if not, they will be punished ICly. As for Xenos, Hive Mother message telling that they all will be devolved into larvas and forgotten on this planet, cut off from Hive must do the job. If they will ignore it, I will manually send Dropships down, to speed up the process.

No. Just SM the losing sides last remaining players and tell them to wrap things up, IC that is.


12. An issue arises that requires Admin+ abilities.

Answer this question


14. A marine opens fire at round start in briefing killing multiple marines and instantly logs off.
Firstly, I'd check his notes, if there will be said that he was doing that in past, I will ban him. Since he broke rule 14 and rule 11.

This sort of behavior is an outright hefty ban. If the player has previous notes that are similar in nature, file for a perma.

15. You see a player playing a xeno larva/chestburster run towards the frontlines and die.
I will PM them and politely ask about what they did, if it was not on purpose and was accident, I will ask them to do not do this again. But if it was done on purpose, I will give them job-ban for short time.

If you saw them do it, chances are there was intent behind it. Find out if their new, if not, a ban is likely warranted.

18. A Command staff player at briefing near round-start mentions there are aliens on the planet.
Warn him that this is Meta, unless he was informed about this by staff. Also I will inform them that picking important roles just for fun isn't good behaviour and may result in job ban.

SM them to preserve the immersion. If they continue on with it, PM 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.
As Life or Death choice is is mostly a valid reason to use lethal force.

Just make sure it's RP'ed at least somewhat.

20. You see a fellow staff member give wrong information in an Adminhelp or incorrectly enforcing a rule.
I would inform my collegue that he is misinforming the player and propose him to correct himself.

If it's simply wrong info, correct them. If it's a outright violation of Policy and Procedure, or the rules, throw it up the chain of command.

20a. You see a fellow staff member abusing his powers in-game.
I will inform heads about this. Staff mustn't abuse powers.

Make sure you follow the chain of command and contact your head, he/she can take it from there.

The answers aren't anything terrible, and you definitely seem like somebody we can mold in a trial, however, that perma on Para is a bit of a hangup for me. How old is that perma ban?

[ThesoldierLLJK]

Answers arent bad, but you missed number 12.

Also I would like to give you a couple what ifs as well:


1. A predator is actively hunting marines outside hydro and steps on a claymore. While he is knocked out he is surrouned by marines getting shot. Suddenly he gets up and activates his Self-Destruct device and follows marines running away. He ends up blowing up right outside of hydro where multiple marines are and he gibbs at least 3, kills another 4, and destroys the FOB. You get multiple ahelps about this, how would you handle?

2. A player says he went AFK and wound up dead in the morgue. He never went planetside and was on the ship the entire time. You check some logs and find that an MP stabbed him to death over 45 mins ago, and the MP is still playing. How would you handle this?

[KaiserBlackwood]

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2. The ship has a breach to space and a bunch of players have died or are dying as a result.
Fix breach with admin powers, then ICly pass a message to Medical that they must pick up wounded and help them. If not possible, will move people inside the ship and help them out.

Breaches can't really happen any more, IIRC. However, if it does, the one time we should leave things as be is when a Pred goes boom, however rare it is on board the Almayer.


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.
Rules are rules. I will tell player that rule existed always and not being acknowledged of rule doesn't free you from punishment. He will be warned to change name, and if he will violate rule repeatedly, he will be punished.


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?
Use HC message for marines to force them to go down and finish the job, if not, they will be punished ICly. As for Xenos, Hive Mother message telling that they all will be devolved into larvas and forgotten on this planet, cut off from Hive must do the job. If they will ignore it, I will manually send Dropships down, to speed up the process.

No. Just SM the losing sides last remaining players and tell them to wrap things up, IC that is.


12. An issue arises that requires Admin+ abilities.

Answer this question


14. A marine opens fire at round start in briefing killing multiple marines and instantly logs off.
Firstly, I'd check his notes, if there will be said that he was doing that in past, I will ban him. Since he broke rule 14 and rule 11.

This sort of behavior is an outright hefty ban. If the player has previous notes that are similar in nature, file for a perma.

15. You see a player playing a xeno larva/chestburster run towards the frontlines and die.
I will PM them and politely ask about what they did, if it was not on purpose and was accident, I will ask them to do not do this again. But if it was done on purpose, I will give them job-ban for short time.

If you saw them do it, chances are there was intent behind it. Find out if their new, if not, a ban is likely warranted.

18. A Command staff player at briefing near round-start mentions there are aliens on the planet.
Warn him that this is Meta, unless he was informed about this by staff. Also I will inform them that picking important roles just for fun isn't good behaviour and may result in job ban.

SM them to preserve the immersion. If they continue on with it, PM 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.
As Life or Death choice is is mostly a valid reason to use lethal force.

Just make sure it's RP'ed at least somewhat.

20. You see a fellow staff member give wrong information in an Adminhelp or incorrectly enforcing a rule.
I would inform my collegue that he is misinforming the player and propose him to correct himself.

If it's simply wrong info, correct them. If it's a outright violation of Policy and Procedure, or the rules, throw it up the chain of command.

20a. You see a fellow staff member abusing his powers in-game.
I will inform heads about this. Staff mustn't abuse powers.

Make sure you follow the chain of command and contact your head, he/she can take it from there.

The answers aren't anything terrible, and you definitely seem like somebody we can mold in a trial, however, that perma on Para is a bit of a hangup for me. How old is that perma ban?

If my mind doesn't change me it's something around a month I am banned at Para.

What about question 12:
If there is a staff member with Admin+ abilities I will notify him about situation. If there is no one, I will PM on slack/discord one of staff members with such abilities and will watch over situation, unless it goes off-hand.

[KaiserBlackwood]

Answers arent bad, but you missed number 12.

Also I would like to give you a couple what ifs as well:

1. A predator is actively hunting marines outside hydro and steps on a claymore. While he is knocked out he is surrouned by marines getting shot. Suddenly he gets up and activates his Self-Destruct device and follows marines running away. He ends up blowing up right outside of hydro where multiple marines are and he gibbs at least 3, kills another 4, and destroys the FOB. You get multiple ahelps about this, how would you handle?
I will respond that Code of Honour for Yautja(same as Marine Law for Marines, however it's more strict) allows Self-Destruct in order to protect his body from being captured. But chasing after running away marines whilst trying to detonate himself is a dick move, but not forbidden. So I will let it resolve in IC.


2. A player says he went AFK and wound up dead in the morgue. He never went planetside and was on the ship the entire time. You check some logs and find that an MP stabbed him to death over 45 mins ago, and the MP is still playing. How would you handle this?
I will contact player and ask him about his behaviour, then make notes for player-MP and ban him. About player who was killed I am not sure, but I wouldn't revive him.

[Loco52]

You actually should aheal him if you banned the MP for grief. I see some flaws in your app and you also missed question number 12, but your answers to these two last questions are ok.

+1

[ThesoldierLLJK]

Based on the answers provided, I think you just need a trial to learn. Loco is correct if someone is a victim of grief no matter how long the round has gone by, they should be revived or sent back to the lobby to play.


+1

[RobBrown4PM]

Yeah I'm going to -1 on this. I know it's a different server and all, but you seemingly lied in your ban appeal over on Para. We can't have someone on staff that's going to be lying.

[x31stOverlord]

My main concern here is your temper, I've seen quite the bit of flaming salt in dead chat. How are you able to keep your cool and be impartial in dealing with matters with the quick to anger personality I've been seeing?

[Mizari]

I'm neutral until you reply to overlord because my thoughts are the same as his right now.

[KaiserBlackwood]

My main concern here is your temper, I've seen quite the bit of flaming salt in dead chat. How are you able to keep your cool and be impartial in dealing with matters with the quick to anger personality I've been seeing?

I mostly salt about unfairness of what happens with my char. In other situations I am able to keep myself calm and professional.

[KaiserBlackwood]

Yeah I'm going to -1 on this. I know it's a different server and all, but you seemingly lied in your ban appeal over on Para. We can't have someone on staff that's going to be lying.

I will pass answering for that. I still have no idea where I have lied there. However, I am not going to lie in future.

[RobBrown4PM]

I will pass answering for that. I still have no idea where I have lied there. However, I am not going to lie in future.

https://nanotrasen.se/forum/topic/14208 ... ent-116432

Unless this is a different KaiserBlackwood, who shares the same username name, similar character name, and forum avatar, then I'm pretty sure this is you, lad.

Also, "I have no idea where I lied there. However, I am not going to lie in the future". Lad, this is one hell of a perplexing statement.

[taketheshot56]

I mostly salt about unfairness of what happens with my char. In other situations I am able to keep myself calm and professional.

Life is unfair. How will you react as a staff member when someone kills your character in an unfair manner? Will you salt as if normally playing?

Refusing to answer robs question does more harm than good. The closemindedness shown in your responses toward it is not befitting of staff.

I'm gonna remain neutral until your respond.

[Mizari]

-1 from me, Not happy with the answers provided and you're replies to rob also.

[KaiserBlackwood]

Life is unfair. How will you react as a staff member when someone kills your character in an unfair manner? Will you salt as if normally playing?

Refusing to answer robs question does more harm than good. The closemindedness shown in your responses toward it is not befitting of staff.

I'm gonna remain neutral until your respond.

Duty of staff member is prioritized over playing normally, so I won't salt about this. Also, what you mean by closemindedness in my responses?

[KaiserBlackwood]

https://nanotrasen.se/forum/topic/14208 ... ent-116432

Unless this is a different KaiserBlackwood, who shares the same username name, similar character name, and forum avatar, then I'm pretty sure this is you, lad.

Also, "I have no idea where I lied there. However, I am not going to lie in the future". Lad, this is one hell of a perplexing statement.

It's me, I've been banned on Para for violating rule of non-traitor kills, because I wanted to teach a guy a lesson of why he shouldn't try stabbing me with a screwdriver, which ended with multiple deaths. Yes, it's my fault, and I regret it and I am sorry for this. But I didn't understood where they thought I lied, if you can explain me, you will have my gratitude, since I really want to change myself in some ways.

[taketheshot56]

Duty of staff member is prioritized over playing normally, so I won't salt about this. Also, what you mean by closemindedness in my responses?

You effectively refused to answer the question regarding your lie about the Paradise appeal. Your continued hostility towards rob regaridng it is certainly proving to be telling.
-1

[KaiserBlackwood]

You effectively refused to answer the question regarding your lie about the Paradise appeal. Your continued hostility towards rob regaridng it is certainly proving to be telling.
-1

I am not hostile towards anyone, why you think so?

[x31stOverlord]

I'm going to remain neutral for now, I will try to keep an eye on you in game over the next few days to see if I am shifted one way or the other

[Ghostdex]

Neutral leaning towards -1 but I have some questions first.

1. A player ahelps that two marines are starting pre-briefing shittery, when you go to investigate they’re both mentors, what do you do?

2. Why do you want to become a mod?

3. How exactly have you changed since your permaban and what makes you mod material?

4. A player ahelps that the Commander went crazy and killed 4 marines, how do you proceed?

[KaiserBlackwood]

1. A player ahelps that two marines are starting pre-briefing shittery, when you go to investigate they’re both mentors, what do you do?
I will PM both of them and notify that players, and mentors also, should not act like shitheads. If they won't listen to me, and will continue to do shit( for example violating Rule 3) I will notify admins and ban them.

2. Why do you want to become a mod?
To make people's experience when playing much more pleasant and interesting.

3. How exactly have you changed since your permaban and what makes you mod material?
I became calmer and balanced, compared to myself before getting banned for being acidic and salty.

4. A player ahelps that the Commander went crazy and killed 4 marines, how do you proceed?
I will check logs, PM the commander and ask IC reason for shooting them. If there is valid reason for their deaths, I may call it a BE. If commander has no valid argument and permakilled them, he will recieve a note, ban and possibly white-list removal.

[Ghostdex]

1. A player ahelps that two marines are starting pre-briefing shittery, when you go to investigate they’re both mentors, what do you do?
I will PM both of them and notify that players, and mentors also, should not act like shitheads. If they won't listen to me, and will continue to do shit( for example violating Rule 3) I will notify admins and ban them.

2. Why do you want to become a mod?
To make people's experience when playing much more pleasant and interesting.

3. How exactly have you changed since your permaban and what makes you mod material?
I became calmer and balanced, compared to myself before getting banned for being acidic and salty.

4. A player ahelps that the Commander went crazy and killed 4 marines, how do you proceed?
I will check logs, PM the commander and ask IC reason for shooting them. If there is valid reason for their deaths, I may call it a BE. If commander has no valid argument and permakilled them, he will recieve a note, ban and possibly white-list removal.

Right I’ll go over these answers.

1. They’re mentors which means you can’t take any direct action against them outside of grabbing evidence and sending it to their manager.

2. I find this answer lacking, can you explain a bit more?

3. Same with 2, how does this make you mod material?

4. While I see where you’re coming from you can’t take action against whitelisted roles outside of some very specific situations. What you should ideally do is just tell the player to make a report against the commander when the round ends.

[KaiserBlackwood]

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Right I’ll go over these answers.

1. They’re mentors which means you can’t take any direct action against them outside of grabbing evidence and sending it to their manager.
Will keep that in mind, thanks.

2. I find this answer lacking, can you explain a bit more?
You know, after I played and was banned by staff I understood that I am not the only person who acts like asshole. So I thought that I want to clear up the rows of players from people who act even worse than me, and ruin the game.

3. Same with 2, how does this make you mod material?
I am calmer, so I can deal with people with becoming angry at them if they will insult me, tell shit in my direction and such. Also, it allows me to weigh the situation and watch it from the other side.

4. While I see where you’re coming from you can’t take action against whitelisted roles outside of some very specific situations. What you should ideally do is just tell the player to make a report against the commander when the round ends.
Noted, thanks for advice.