LordRaven001 - Moderator Application

[LordRaven001]

Byond ID: LordRaven001

Colonial Marines Character: Jade Koster, Jaydon Bratton, Victor Belinto, Aliyah Christman.

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Timezone: Mountain Time

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate? I do homeschooling so fourty-sixty hours a week is good for me, Any time really.

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

Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)? Yes, I have been a staff member on four team fortess two servers, Three Garrys mod servers , Two Minecraft servers, And it may not help but i've been a developer on one SS13 server that used baystation source.

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers? No

What other servers do you play on? Aurora Station

What are the 3 biggest servers you play on besides CM? Aurora Station is the only one I play on when I am not on CM

Have you had an application to Colonial Marines before? Nope

Are you currently a staff member elsewhere (not just SS13)? If so, where? Nope

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on Colonial Marines? Nope

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on ANY server? If so, where and When (roughly)? No, I have not.

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.

I would send him a Mod PM , Asking why he is shooting his weapon, Ill give him a four minute response to reply to that Mod PM, It can branch off from there in two situations,

Situation A: He will ignore the Mod PM and continue firing his weapon, At that point I will send him another Mod PM giving him one final chance to respond to my PM, If he yet again ignores me and continues shooting randomly, I will give him a three hour ban, if he rejoins after those three hours are up and continues griefing or attempts to attack another player, It will be met with a day and I will notify higher ranked staff asking for advice on how to proceed if he rejoins again after the day ban and continues griefing.

Situation B: He responds to the Mod PM stating why he is shooting randomly, I notify him that it is against the rules and he stops, If he does not stop and instead continues, I will give him a three hour ban for griefing.




2. The Sulaco has a breach to space.

This situation is also two part, If it is accidental or intentional, If it is intentional I will review the logs on who caused the explosion in what vector and proceed to ask them why they caused the breach, If they do not respond with its accidental, I will inform them that rule fourteen in general rules states that intentional breaching is not allowed, And give him a warning. In the admin ranks config file Moderators do not have access to Build Mode, So I would contact the correct people who have access to build mode to repair the breach. If the breach cannot be repaired via build mode, I will make a M.O.T.H.E.R announcement stating that there is a breach in the location advising the crew not to go there, as well as advising engineering to repair it..

If it is accidental, I will proceed to inform him of our rule on breaches intentionally and ask him to not do it again, I will then contact a higher ranked staff member as Moderators do not have access to build mode and ask them to repair the breach. If the breach cannot be repaired via Build Mode I will make a M.O.T.H.E.R announcement stating that there is a breach in that location advising crew to stay away and engineers to fix it



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.

If they asked this in adminhelp I would respond notifying them that it is an IC matter to have them contact, Command.

If they asked via a fax, I would respond as Weyland Yutani or Commandvia Event Announcement, Stating that the nuclear codes will not be given in order to protect the assets, telling the marines to do what they are paid for, To fight and secure the colony.

I would not mention how many aliens or marines as that will give them an unfair advantage.


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.

I would Mod PM the Sulaco Research asking why he made the Napalm Grenades, Stating that they are against the rules as they cause atmospherics problems, it can fork off in two directions from there.

Direction One: They do not reply back and instead throw the napalm grenades randomly across the sulaco destroying atmos in major parts of the ship, From that point I would proceed to permaban the player for mass grief,ignoring administrators,intentional atmos destruction. After the ban was over I would attempt to contact an admin on skype asking what to do, If there are no admins on skype I would restart the server after notifying the playerbase on what happened.

Direction Two: They respond to my Mod PM apologizing for the creation of the napalm grenades stating they are still new, I would then notify them that Ignorance is NOT an excuse, supplying a link to our rule page and warning them for creating Napalm Grenades. I would make a M.O.T.H.E.R announcement stating that the atmosphereics in said room was lethal advising crew not to enter it.


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

I would simply mute the player from using ahelps replying to one of his ahelps stating that if he continues abusing it will be a ban.

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

I would ModPM the player who had said name stating that his name does not fit our naming rules, I would then ask him what he would like his name changed too, If he ignores me I would notify him one more time that his name does not fit our naming rules, if he ignores my second ModPM I would ask an administrator who has access to Variables to set his name for him to a random name. If he replies back to my ModPM with the name he wants his character to be I would pass it onto a higher up who has access to Variables and can set his name.

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 would reply with ignorance is not an excuse it is stated on our welcome text when you join the server, It is also rule two of general rules that you can see it if you look at the rules, asking him again what name he wants, If he continues arguing with me I will just ignore him Notifying a person who has access to Variables to set his name to a random name.

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 would notify him that Doctors are not authorized weapons if the Sulaco has been boarded and if the Sulaco is boarded they are only authorized a pistol, I would also inform him that he is FailRPing as a doctor, Proceeding to job ban him, If he disputes the job ban I will hear his dispute and make a decision based on what he has said.

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

I would inform him that Squad Medics have no RP knowledge on how to preform surgery and that there job is there to stabalize the patients for transport back to the Sulaco, I would then give him a warning stating that if he does it again he will get banned, If he argues with me on it, I will calmly reply with a link to our rules stating what rule states it.

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 make a M.O.T.H.E.R announcement stating that there is four unidentified lifesigns aboard LV-624.

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

I would delay round end so I may speak with the player, on what he did wrong, I will swiftly handle the situation and ban the player after we discussed what he did wrong for three hours for the reason "End Round Grief" Providing a link to the rules in the ban message.

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

I would ask him why he was using soap to slip up other marines and not gearing up ready to deploy, If he responds and states somthing along the lines of "Its fun" or "Just Cause" I will proceed to inform him that it constitutes as griefing and will ask him to stop, If he does not stop after my request, I will ban him for three hours with the reason "Griefing,Purposely Slipping marines on Soap" And provide him a link to our rules in his ban message.


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

I would notify the marine that killed the puncher that he cannot do that unless they use Lethal Force against him, Such as. "Purposefully using a lethal weapon (gun, sharp object, explosive, etc) or beating into critical/death another marine" notifying him that the other marines now have free reign to kill or shoot him and admin assistance will not be forfitted, I will also give him a warning stating that if he does it again he will get banned, To the player who got killed I will revive him.

Any additional information you'd like to add?: I know I may be new to the server but I eagerly want to help out other players on Colonial Marines, As of recent there have been griefers that have ruined rounds for me and other players and I want to help prevent that, Thanks for reading my application, If you have any tips on how I can improve or make it better please reply giving me that advice, Was signed into Archon when I made the moderator application posted it and realized the rule, My bad, I'm still fairly new so I understand if you don't trust me with it, If this gets denied I will continue trying and trying until it can get accepted.

[MauroVega]

Anime profile <3
No but serious this is your first post,we don't know you not a single one of your characters Is "known"
-1

[TheSlapDoctor]

I've never known any of your characters, but that's possibly because you seem to be playing four.

Maybe stick to one and make a name for yourself?

For question 7, a job-ban for carrying a rifle is a bit extreme.

As for question 10, I doubt that delaying the round-end to talk to the ERG offender is appropriate, you'd likely just apply the ban and move on.

Overall, your answers to the questions were over-zealous at times, the goal is to correct behaviour if possible, not drive away players immediately.

-1

[LordRaven001]

Anime profile <3
No but serious this is your first post,we don't know you not a single one of your characters Is "known"
-1

I've never known any of your characters, but that's possibly because you seem to be playing four.

Maybe stick to one and make a name for yourself?

For question 7, a job-ban for carrying a rifle is a bit extreme.

As for question 10, I doubt that delaying the round-end to talk to the ERG offender is appropriate, you'd likely just apply the ban and move on.

Overall, your answers to the questions were over-zealous at times, the goal is to correct behaviour if possible, not drive away players immediately.

-1

I know my characters are not known and this is my first post, Thank you though for replying. I will attempt to get my characters more known.

My questions are over-zealous at some points I can agree, Do you have any suggestions in order to improve myself, I would love to hear them, Thank you for your reply.

[TheSlapDoctor]

Well being aware that your responses might be harsh is a start, and I'm not a member of staff; so you should take any advice with a pinch of salt, because I'm not entirely aware of their actual protocol. Any member of staff could pop up after this and tell me I'm way off.

But firstly, you should take a closer look at the rules. As staff, you're likely going to have to think on your toes a little, in certain cases enforcing the rules to the letter can get in the way of the players having a fun (and oftentimes friendly) experience. That being said, the rules are clearly defined for a reason. They'd be your safety net and you can always fall back on them when you're not sure what to do.

To that effect, you should be wary about handing out bans. They are your most powerful tool to correct bad behaviour, but they also generate the most backlash. Players should almost always be given a warning about their behaviour before a ban is issued. The goal would be to inform them of the rules and make sure that they aren't punished for a genuine mistake. (The rules say ignorance isn't an excuse, but in practice, if you're willing to clean up your act after being given a warning, most staff will let one or two offences slide.) There are a couple of exceptions to this, such as ERG and ERP which I believe are instant bans.

The population is the lifeblood of the server. You'll have to walk the fine line between removing players from the population to ensure the others can enjoy themselves properly, and making sure that you don't ban (and drive away) players who make honest mistakes.

[Grypho]

SlapDoctor is right and I am going to supplement his feedback a bit.

Looking at your answers, you don´t seem to have understood the correct core reason why most of us who are in the staff, have applied for it. Moderator is not just a fun job where you ban that player for doing wrong, job-ban that another guy for failing and permaban another guy. Moderator´s one of the main goals is to not make people break the rules in the first place and ensure that the server is fun to play, issuing a ban should be the last resort. In practice, most of the punishments are psychological; even getting PMed at by staff member can be a punishment because it disturbs their round and might get them feel bad if they are here to play. I recommend you to take a look at our protocols and code of conduct and I can copy paste some of them here which I find essential for you. viewtopic.php?f=57&t=5647

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Moderator
The moderators are the police of the server. Their main focus is to ensure that rules are not being broken and that the integrity and fun of the server is maintained. They take ahelps before anyone else. Player enjoyment and enforcement of the rules are their top two priorities; however, the rules are NOT unbend-able, and if bending a rule allows the server to have fun, then a moderator can use their own judgement to determine the proper course of action. The most important thing is making sure players are enjoying themselves as much as they can be!

Preserve the RP and enjoyment of the server
- If a player breaks a rule, but increases the enjoyment of the server in general, (through roleplay or other such things) it can be overlooked. If no one admin helps (ahelp) a complaint, or seems to be complaining or taking issue with it, it may be best to let it go.
- We’re a server focused on the enjoyment of the players. As long as the players are having a blast and not every single rule is being broken, it’s okay to let some things slide here and there.
- Do not try to heavily influence the game unless it is for very good reasoning such as for an event, a player purposefully holding up the game, dishing out punishment for rule breaking (Examples: a commander killed a marine unjustly, a squad of marines are killing other marines for no reason, a queen is slashing every host known to man, aliens have stacked too many huggers) or other such things.


Enforcement of the rules
- Whenever a player receives a punishment they should know why and what they are being punished for.
- Ensure that all incidents are adequately investigated before giving a ruling.
- We are not a government repressing their citizens. Don’t hassle players for literally everything.

1. Send a personal message (PM) to the violator asking them to explain their actions
a. Give them a respectable time to respond. They might not be able to respond that second. If there is a group running and fighting put the individuals to sleep that seem to be causing an issue, inform them through LOOC or OOC that they’ve been put to sleep by a staff member, then deal with them accordingly. Make sure that other people don’t steal from them or anything of the sort.
b. It is recommended that you get a second staff member to help with larger groups of possible rule breakers so you can resolve the situation faster.


5. Determine the punishment.
a. Determine the bare minimum punishment. There's no reason to jump straight to a ban, especially if the incident didn't cause a major disruption to the game. Try to use warnings, and if you do need to ban don't be excessive. Most bans should not be above 12 hours.
b. If a player’s general ban time exceeds 24 hours (they’re constantly being banned for more than 24 hours) then a permanent ban request may be filed if needed. If a player’s general ban time exceeds more than three days, then it is recommended that a permanent ban request is filed.
c. If you feel someone needs to receive a permanent ban, give them a ban for 10,080 minutes (7 days) and make a post in the Permaban Request section of the admin forums explaining the situation and why you believe a permaban should be enforced. This should ONLY be done for repeat offenders, or players griefing the server (those bald pajama marines that shoot up the place).

6. PIN NOTES TO PLAYERS
a. Take proper notes after, or when banning players, warning players, and when noticing excessively bad behavior from players.
b. After banning a player, a note describing the ban reason and time should always be placed.
c. Positive notes may be added, but only for very noteworthy things such as constantly helping staff out by reporting actual rule breakers or teaching other players how to play the game. Say a marine blew up the entire hive with a knife somehow; while this is noteworthy, it is not the kind of thing that should be pinned to a player's notes.
d. Remember that a player’s notes will be made public at their request. Do not disclose another player’s notes without their permission to another player in game, or on the forums. You may of course cite notes in ban appeals and player reports on the forums when needed.

Also here are some things you should remember: Let the player ALWAYS speak out and explain before banning them. If we just ban every single person we assume have likely broken the rules, our server will quickly get a bad reputation and rumors start to circlejerk around about the colonial marines staff. Currently, we have a quite decent reputation, but it can be ruined by a single staff member easily.

I apologize if this criticism/feedback is a bit harsh, but this is just to help you understand and fix some assumptions you might have and will probably make you a better moderator if you get accepted here or on other servers. I am going to go with -1 for now, but I can change it to neutral/+1 if you show us that you are interested about our server and learn from the feedback.

[SASoperative]

Sorry friend but I am going to have to go with Denied