Change the Application format!

[Doctor Clockwork]

Suggestion Title:

Your a lazy git. You can read, you wouldn't be reading this if you couldn't!

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):

I already have a template of how I would like the CM app's to look like, we can even throw these at NE's faces if they want them. I find that since we are MEDIUM ROLEPLAY server where ROLEPLAY is to be upheld at ALL TIMES we should have a more advanced application process. So we can dig into peoples heads, psychologically so I can eat all the sweet goodness inside. I mean, whats stopping us from making it advanced as is? I know the answer, time. No one has time to dwell on the fourms, and all its shit. They all want to be men and code and map, blah blah blah. Well know, we have to look at the small things and allow them. Thanks for listening to my rant

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):

Uh, MEDIUM ROLEPLAY, were we UPHOLD ROLEPLAY AT ALL TIMES, might be useful to have people with it on the team who know what there doing. So we aren't asking about what they'd do, but we get to know them, and also know what they think about certain things.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

I have a template created for this,

Code: Select all

[align=center][color=#9999cc][b]Name:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]BYOND Account:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Character Name(s):[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Have you ever used a different Key on New Eden or NE Colonial Marines?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Do you have a Skype account(YES/NO)?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Age:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Time-Zone:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Active Hour(s):[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]How you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on Colonial Marines, if so, When and Why? :[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Have you had an application to Colonial Marines or New Eden denied before:[/b][/color]
ANSWER


[color=#9999cc][b]BACKGROUND[/b][/color]
[color=#9999cc][b]Are you accustomed with NE Colonial Marines rules?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]How long have you played Spess Station 13?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]How long have you been playing NE Colonial Marines?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Do you have any prior or current experience as a staff member of SS13(EXPLAIN AND NAME)?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Do you have any prior or current experience as a staff member on another game(EXPLAIN AND NAME)?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Do you have any prior or current experience as a staff member in actual life (EXPLAIN)?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER


[color=#9999cc][b]Who are you?[/b][/color]
[color=#9999cc][b]Why do you play this game?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Why do you play this server?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Why do you want to be a moderator?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]What makes a good moderator?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]What makes a bad moderator?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]What are your strengths as a person?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Wake are your weaknesses?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]How do you cope with these weaknesses?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Can you work with a team (YES/NO)?:[/b][/color]


[color=#9999cc][b]Moderator Questions(ANSWER WITH 3 OR MORE SENTENCES):[/b][/color]
[color=#9999cc][b]If a player was shooting everyone in briefing at round start how would you deal with the situation?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]You notice that a warrior is breaching the Nostromo for no reason and is unable to seal the breach. How would you deal with this and what punishment would you give for a first offender?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]There Marines want the Nuke codes, to detonate the Nostromo because they claim they are losing too many marines. There are currently, 4 aliens, and 20 marines in your /who. What do you do?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]You have 22 seconds of air left in your sinking submarine, 3 matches, a loaf of bread, an admin, and a player. How do you spend your final moments(CAN BE ANSWERED WITH LESS THAN 3)?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]A Sulaco Medic has made SEVERAL napalm grenades, and hands them out to Marines. One of the marines, throws the grenade into logistics, there are no admins, or other moderators online. What do you do?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER
[color=#9999cc][b]Why should you join the moderator team?:[/b][/color]
ANSWER, WHY SHOULDN'T WE ALLOW THAT GUY NAMED JAUN TO BE ONE INSTEAD?
[color=#9999cc][b]Add. details (Optional):[/b][/color]
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Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):[/align]
You know, stuff. Just edit the post.

[Rahlzel]

A few points I want to make:

1. If a question ends with a question mark, it doesn't need a colon.
2. "Active Hour(s)" is too ambiguous. People will either answer "6-10 pm" when they're available but might not be in-game, "2-4 hours" if they understand the question differently, and in the former case staff will try to calculate what "6-10 pm" means in between their time zone and that listed by the applicant. Specificity is key: "How many hours are you willing to put in daily to moderate?", which is the original question on our current app.
3. The headings - "Who are you?", "Background" - can easily be confused as actual questions.
4. "Why do you play this game?" and "Why do you play this server?:" will understandably have answers like "See above".
5. "Can you work with a team (YES/NO)?:" is just taking up space. No one is going to answer "NO" to this.
6. "ANSWER WITH 3 OR MORE SENTENCES" should be removed, along with most of the formatting. We don't want to hand them an application that gives them too much help. We want to see if they can follow instructions and intent, or perhaps even make it look better themselves. Their failure or success in doing so is part of the application process. It helps us understand what kind of person they are.
7. Our current app has 15 questions. This one is 30 questions. I don't think the jump in quantity carries with it an equal increase in quality.

Final note: In this (and our current app) there are no personality questions with the exception of the "loaf of bread" one, in a manner of speaking. One of my favorite questions in an application in one of the communities I helped manage was: "What would you do if a player started talking about what he did with your mom last night?"

The point is, we want people who answer something like, "I'd laugh it off, it doesn't bother me." Customer service-type jobs like this (especially the volunteer kind) are not for people with a short temper.

[apophis775]

Loaf of Bread?

Anyway, I'll look into some personality questions but we are not doubling the questions in the application...

[Doctor Clockwork]

Thanks, its helps.

[apophis775]

Denied.