SpanishBirdman - Moderator Application

[SpanishBirdman]

Byond ID:
SpanishBirdman

Colonial Marines Character:
Scott Fleming

Age:
22

Gender:
Male

Timezone:
Mountain Time

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate?
30

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

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers?
Yes, I used to play on the Nostromo a year or two ago.

What other servers do you play on?
Occasionally Yog and Hippie

What are the 3 biggest servers you play on besides CM?
Yog and Hippie, used to play on Paradise occasionally

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)?
I was permabanned on Paradise for a while. I was showing a friend of mine how to play, and had to leave unexpectedly. I left another friend who knows SS13 in charge of making sure he didn't do anything stupid, but he just said screw it and let the guy grief once I had left. I have since been unbanned.

Are you familiar with Slack (It's use is required)?
Yes, I use it for Uni stuff.

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.
- Freeze them, check to see if they hit anyone, as well as their notes and whatever they have to say for themselves. Depending on their notes, story and how much damage they did, they'll either get banned for griefing or unfrozen, warned, and left to the MPs. Fix damage to anyone wounded. Make a note.


2. The Sulaco has a breach to space.
- Check if it was caused by a Pred detonation or incompetence. If it was, leave it alone. If it was intentional, fix it (and anyone injured by it) and look into the person who caused 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.
- Have MOTHER inform them of the enemy count and the consequences of dereliction of duty. They will not receive the nuke.


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.
- Logistics guy gets banned for griefing, Researcher is warned to be more careful distributing grenades. If they have a history of doing this, USCMCHC issues a warrant for their arrest on weapons dealing charges. File a bug report as logistics no longer exists. Make a note on the Researcher.


5. A played is starting to talk about the things he did with your mom last night over Ahelp.
- Remind them of rule 3, and tell them to be civil or face harsher punishment for whatever they did.


6. You notice a marine with a name that doesn't fit our naming rules.
- Tell them to change it next round if it's not really obvious, tell them to come up with a new one now if it is blatant or they have prior notes for namefoolery. Change the name once they pick one that fits the guidelines. Make a note.

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.
- Remind them it is their responsibility to know and follow ALL the rules, and just because no one noticed it doesn't mean it's OK. Stick to my guns and ensure the name gets changed.


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.
- Message, tell them to lose the gun and get back to work. Make a note if they do, warn they will get a job ban if they do not. Apply said job ban if needed.


8. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.
- Do not let them continue, remind them of the rules and tell them to stabilize wounded to get them to the Sulaco medbay. Make a note.


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?
- Provide a MOTHER scan and a fax from USCMCHC telling the marines to get to work. If they ignore it, find the most competent and gung ho member of command and issue a fax and MOTHER report promoting them to acting commander effective immediately.


10. The round ends, and a marine starts unloading his weapons on other marines.
- Freeze them, tell them they screwed up, and if it's their first offence give them a 2 hour ban. Make a note.


11. A marine who has recently awoken is using soap to slip other marines.
- Eat popcorn and chuckle if they only do it for a short time, tell them to knock it off and obey rule 1 if they persist.


12. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why, he said it was because the other marine had punched him.
- Check logs for escalation, if I don't find it remind him of lethal force rules, ban if needed based on prior notes. Fix the dead marine if there was no escalation. Make a note.



Any additional information you'd like to add?
I like this server a lot and want to help shield if from the endless tide of summer. I think I can add a lot of flavor to in universe communication like MOTHER and WY faxes. In regards to my Ckey not matching, I tried to make an account with my Ckey name but didn't receive confirmation emails no matter how many times I resent them.

Edit: Added making notes into a few of the answers, pretty much every situation would include checking player's notes and adding them as appropriate, as you would expect.

[coolsurf6]

About some of the situations,

4.
Napalm grenades are fixed so the researcher is fine, the guy in logistics should get banned and noted for grief.


10.
Its a 3 hour ban no warnings, its not bad just telling themyou screwed up or just saying "EoRG" but ban them straight after. They can either be civil and wait it out or appeal it.

Thats all i have to say about the questions.

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Some things i would like to mention are that i have never seen you around (probably because your ina way different timezone then i am)
I can reccommend getting on discord and talking with some of us and getting to know us and the same back.
This application is very well done

+1

[SpanishBirdman]

About some of the situations,

4.
Napalm grenades are fixed so the researcher is fine, the guy in logistics should get banned and noted for grief.


10.
Its a 3 hour ban no warnings, its not bad just telling themyou screwed up or just saying "EoRG" but ban them straight after. They can either be civil and wait it out or appeal it.

Thats all i have to say about the questions.

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Some things i would like to mention are that i have never seen you around (probably because your ina way different timezone then i am)
I can reccommend getting on discord and talking with some of us and getting to know us and the same back.
This application is very well done

+1

Thanks a lot for the feedback! For 4 and 10 I did say I would ban the greifers, though I do notice the 3 hour minimum looking back on the rules. I've been on the discord a couple times, never felt like posting though.

[Mizari]

You misread question 4, Why would you ban the Logistics guy if his area got a grenade thrown into it by a marine?

Question 3 - Should never give exact numbers to the opposing force.

-1 from me at this time due to not seeing you in-game much and your answers.

[SpanishBirdman]

You misread question 4, Why would you ban the Logistics guy if his area got a grenade thrown into it by a marine?

Question 3 - Should never give exact numbers to the opposing force.

-1 from me at this time due to not seeing you in-game much and your answers.

By "logistics guy" I mean the guy who threw a grenade into logistics. I don't know why I would ban a LO for having a grenade thrown at him either, it's a very odd way to interpret my words.

[Mizari]

Alright I'll summarize what I mean by why would you ban him. I'm asking this because you never actually said any investigation would take place and it could of been a Mutiny.

[SpanishBirdman]

Alright I'll summarize what I mean by why would you ban him. I'm asking this because you never actually said any investigation would take place and it could of been a Mutiny.

If it was a mutiny either I would know about it or it would be an unauthorized one, and not a valid reason to throw a grenade. Logistics is also not the place you firebomb in a mutiny, gotta take that to the bridge. In any case I would check notes, logs, and talk to the guy before deciding to ban him, like I say at the bottom of my post. Standard procedure. It's more straightforward than the rest though, as there is pretty much no valid reason to do it.

[SlayerDusty]

This is good but, like I did in my first application, you've missed out one rule, sulaco should never have breaches, end of, you see one plug it with whatever you can. But apart from that for the application (plus) 1. However I haven't seen you on at all, so unless you live in a complete opposite time zone then get more server time brah. Furthermore although similar your ckey doesn't match your forum user name, it took me a while to figure out when you replied or if a random guy called spanman did.

[SpanishBirdman]

This is good but, like I did in my first application, you've missed out one rule, sulaco should never have breaches, end of, you see one plug it with whatever you can. But apart from that for the application (plus) 1. However I haven't seen you on at all, so unless you live in a complete opposite time zone then get more server time brah. Furthermore although similar your ckey doesn't match your forum user name, it took me a while to figure out when you replied or if a random guy called spanman did.

I've seen a few times the admins have intentionally allowed breaches to continue due to them being caused by preds or marine incompetence, but duly noted. I mentioned in my application that I tried to make a forum account named SpanishBirdman but was unable to as verification emails never reached me. I Ahelped it on the server and was told to make an account with a different name. Since SpanishBirdman is connected to what I guess is a misspelled version of my email, I can't use it. I've been considering just making a SpanMan Ckey, since I like it a bit more than SpanishBirdman.

In regards to not being around on the server... *squints* I haven't seen you around either. Kinda funny that only people I never see on the server are commenting on this. I do play at least 2 or 3 games most days, as I'm sure some of the staff who I see on a fairly regular basis can attest, such as Noize, Ordukai, or KeyWii.

[coolsurf6]

Thats my timezone. What character do you play mostly?

[SpanishBirdman]

Thats my timezone. What character do you play mostly?

Scott Fleming, just like the sig says. I helped with your suicide pact last round.

[SlayerDusty]

In regards to not being around on the server... *squints* I haven't seen you around either. Kinda funny that only people I never see on the server are commenting on this. I do play at least 2 or 3 games most days, as I'm sure some of the staff who I see on a fairly regular basis can attest, such as Noize, Ordukai, or KeyWii.

I'm almost never on with them due to my completely opisite time zone, look for Varnoc and derpi and jack and feweh and occasionaly apop as thats who I see most

also breaches must never go un-patched if possible

[KeyWii]

I've seen him on the server multiple times.

[Feweh]

Ive seen you a few times ingame now.
Im willing to give you a shot.

[TR-BlackDragon]

Alright. I'll give you a shot. See how you handle it. Changing your name to match you byond name

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[SpanishBirdman]

Great, thanks!

[apophis775]

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[apophis775]

PM me your email so I can invite you to the slack