Aetsuki - Moderator Application

[Aetsuki]

Byond ID: Aetsuki

Colonial Marines Character: Rae Tsuki

Age: 19

Gender: M

Timezone: GMT -7

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate? 65

Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)? Worked as a Lifeguard Supervisor at a major waterpark.

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

What other servers do you play on? Haven't really gotten into any new ones as a regular, the ones I used to play on have shut down.

What are the 3 biggest servers you play on besides CM? N/A

Have you had an application to Colonial Marines before? No

Are you currently a staff member elsewhere (not just SS13)? If so, where? Moderator on a Discord server, unrelated to SS13.

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)? 24 hour ban at Pure RP, around five years back.

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 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.
Determine if they're firing on marines or in general, and whether or not it was a misclick. If they're firing on marines it's grief, at which point they'll be PMed and talk to assess the situation, to know what they've done, and if necessary where they can appeal if they believe the upcoming ban is a mistake. 1 hour seems appropiate. If it's a misclick, no action is needed.


2. The Sulaco has a breach to space.
Check if the breach was player grief, and if the crew has the capability of fixing it. If they're incapable, then it can be fixed at admin discretion, either with build mode or a spawned staff character to repair it, depending on the situation. PM accordingly.


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.
Man up and deal with it. Make a MOTHER update about a "scan", listing the hostiles on the planet, and ordering the marines to make an attack.


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.
PM the marine who threw the grenade, checking their reasons, and assessing the damage to ship and crew. Message viable staff on Slack about the situation about a seven day ban, if it's just blatant griefing.


5. A player is starting to talk about the things he did with your mom last night over Ahelp.
Respectfully ask them to knock it off since they're abusing ahelp, if they don't, disable their ahelp privilege.


6. You notice a marine with a name that doesn't fit our naming rules.
PM them about the offense, and offer to change their name for them. Also ask them to make sure they change it in the setup screen next round.

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.
Apologize that they've not been made aware of the rule before, but direct them to what rule number it is, and still offer to change it.


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.
PM them that they shouldn't have the gun, and they should be dealing with the patients in medbay. If they refuse, they get a job ban from medical roles, which they can appeal to on the forums.


8. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.
PM with a warning, and tell them the rule they broke, which is on the Job-specific rules. Allow them to finish on the patient.


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?
MOTHER report ordering the marines to attack. If they don't, ask an admin about starting a predator round.


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


11. A marine who has recently awoken is using soap to slip other marines.
No action.


12. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why, he said it was because the other marine had punched him.
PM the other marine who got killed, to check if was planned. If it was, then its fine and can be handled ingame. If it's not, three hour ban.



Any additional information you'd like to add?

The 24 hour ban from Pure RP was because I didn't know how antags worked. I was, at the time, only a few days into the game, and it was my understanding that you just chose to be an antag. Since then, I have been staff on other SS13 servers, and have had experience in doing so, until they shut down. I hope my forum activity and account age aren't factored in as much as my server experience, I've played CM for alot longer than I've had the forum account. I'm also not aware if moderators have ban ability, or if the notice is forwarded to admins.

[Scrat505]

Neutral.

I've never heard of you before, and you've only 2 other posts that weren't making this application. The app is okay, but a bit iffy on one of the rule examples.

[Feweh]

No idea who you are.

[Jdobbin49]

1. A player is firing his weapon in the briefing area near the start of the round.
Determine if they're firing on marines or in general, and whether or not it was a misclick. If they're firing on marines it's grief, at which point they'll be PMed and talk to assess the situation, to know what they've done, and if necessary where they can appeal if they believe the upcoming ban is a mistake. 1 hour seems appropiate. If it's a misclick, no action is needed.

You should check to see if he has previous notes because this would determine if the ban would be longer or not.

2. The Sulaco has a breach to space.
Check if the breach was player grief, and if the crew has the capability of fixing it. If they're incapable, then it can be fixed at admin discretion, either with build mode or a spawned staff character to repair it, depending on the situation. PM accordingly.

This one is alrightish but mods have a verb just to fix breaches so spawning a character wouldn't be needed.

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.
Man up and deal with it. Make a MOTHER update about a "scan", listing the hostiles on the planet, and ordering the marines to make an attack.

This one is fine in my opinion because of the mother scan.

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.
PM the marine who threw the grenade, checking their reasons, and assessing the damage to ship and crew. Message viable staff on Slack about the situation about a seven day ban, if it's just blatant griefing.

7 days is usually the length we ban people for a pending perma so I don't think that long a ban would be needed. Again always check player notes to determine length of ban.

5. A player is starting to talk about the things he did with your mom last night over Ahelp.
Respectfully ask them to knock it off since they're abusing ahelp, if they don't, disable their ahelp privilege.

This one's fine.

6. You notice a marine with a name that doesn't fit our naming rules.
PM them about the offense, and offer to change their name for them. Also ask them to make sure they change it in the setup screen next round.

Mods aren't able to change names but the latter half of your answer is fine, always leave notes as well.

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.
Apologize that they've not been made aware of the rule before, but direct them to what rule number it is, and still offer to change it.

If they say they have used it for several years you would think that they would know the rules for being a long time player. Again check notes to make sure the player isn't lying and ask on slack chat if you are at a loss.

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.
PM them that they shouldn't have the gun, and they should be dealing with the patients in medbay. If they refuse, they get a job ban from medical roles, which they can appeal to on the forums.

This one is fine.

8. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.
PM with a warning, and tell them the rule they broke, which is on the Job-specific rules. Allow them to finish on the patient.

Again check notes to see if they have done this before and if so that could be a possible squad medic job ban and the last half of your answer I don't really like.

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?
MOTHER report ordering the marines to attack. If they don't, ask an admin about starting a predator round.

I don't really like the starting a pred round bit because there might not be any pred players on in which case it wouldn't help and even if there were people would then chase after the pred extending the round either longer. The first part of your answer is good.

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

This one is good.

11. A marine who has recently awoken is using soap to slip other marines.
No action.

Eh, depends if they keep doing it but if this question refers to round start then it's fine.
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12. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why, he said it was because the other marine had punched him.
PM the other marine who got killed, to check if was planned. If it was, then its fine and can be handled ingame. If it's not, three hour ban.

This one is ok.
I will say that I have only seen you once in game and that was yesterday and I must say your character was very annoying and bossy so I do truly hope that you as a moderator wouldn't be like that.
Neutral for now leaning on +1

[Aetsuki]

Thank you for the feedback. I do remember yelling at Requisitions, not sure if you were in that lot. Either way, I'll keep aware and cut back if I'm being hostile.

[slc97]

I had known of you before you put in this app, and I've been watching you more since.
In game, I feel like you play a good character. I've never seen you outright be a dick to anyone and I've always seen you with a relatively level head.
My only complaint is not a lot of forum activity. I'd like to see more than 13 posts from you. (I'm being a total hypocrite since my app was submitted while I only had 3 posts, but I digress.)
Get a little bit more community activism going here and I'll +1 the crap out of you.

[TR-BlackDragon]

I like what I've been hearing so far. I'll let this sit for a few more days before making a decision on this application

[Jdobbin49]

I've honestly seen you a lot more in game now than I did before hand and you have seemed to take my advice from what I said and I appreciate that.
I am growing to like you as a player so imma switch to +1

[slc97]

Haven't really seen much more forum activity from you, but from what I've seen from you in game more recently, I think you would very much add a positive impact to the server as a mod.
+1

[Toroic]

As Jdobbin pointed out, many of your initial answers need some work, and I didn't see mention of proper escalation, which tends to come up fairly often.

I have seen you in game, so I am neutral for now.

[Westhybrid]

+1. Worth giving them a shot. Seen them enough in game.

[Aetsuki]

As Jdobbin pointed out, many of your initial answers need some work, and I didn't see mention of proper escalation, which tends to come up fairly often.

Of course, I can understand that, and obviously I expected I got some wrong. The initial feedback is extremely helpful if my application does get accepted, and any feedback afterwards is welcome and helpful as well, which will hopefully bring improved answers in the future.

Haven't really seen much more forum activity from you

I've not been commenting as many posts as I could, but I've kept the chatroom on the main page open at all times on my other monitor, and I've definitely maintained activity on there. I know it's not the same, but I hope it's a little closer.

Also, I completely forgot to address the latter half of my answer for #8. The idea I was replying with was that it would suck for someone who was halfway through surgery to be knocked out for essentially no reason, and left half operated on, as I couldn't remember if you could seal an incision while halfway through the operation procedure, which would just be a mess in general.

[Feweh]

This is accepted.

Please send me a PM with your email so I can add you to slack.

[TR-BlackDragon]

As Feweh said above this is accepted, Send Either Feweh or me your email and we will send you an invite via slack and ill add your perms to the forum and get you added to the server.. Welcome to the team.

[Aetsuki]

Thank you. PM sent, Feweh. I'm about to head out for work, but I'll be on tonight.