senen182 - Moderator Application

[senen182]

Moderator Application

Personal Information

Byond ID?

senen182

CM Character?

Damon 'Rasta' Rivers

Are you 16 or older?

Yes

Timezone

ICT (GMT+7)

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

15ish but spikes up and down

Qualifications

Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)?

Yeah I've adminned a few Byond games historically

Do you play any servers aside from CM-SS13?

Nope

Provide links to any previous Colonial Marines applications that you've made:

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Like this?

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

I'm a community mentor so I'm technically staff.

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

No. I was once job banned for suiciding as a staff officer though because I hadn't read the rule.

Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on ANY server? If so, which server, when, and what for?

No.

Are you familiar with the chat program Discord (its use is required)?

Yes

Communication is a vital part of being a Moderator. Are you willing to actively do so with the team?

Sure

Common Staff Situations

A player randomly shoots someone at round start and MPs have detained him.

This is an IC issue so I wouldn't necessarily do anything. I might watch just to make sure rules were being followed but it looks like the situation can be handled ICly.

A player ahelps that a predator has violated the honor code when killing him, what should you do?

I'd kindly let the person know that they should file a report to the predator WL council or via the forums. Moderators.

You see a player walking around the ship naked and clearly lost at roundstart.

I'm a mentor so I would check if any SEAs are online, if none I'd ask in the mentorchat if any can spawn in.

I would spawn in as a SEA myself if none were available.

A player is being very rude to you in adminhelps, calling you names and arguing everything you say. He is requesting to speak to an Admin+ staff member.

Politely inform them that if they have an issue with me personally they are welcome to file a staff report and have the situation resolved offline.

A player ahelps that a marine is named 'John Doe', how do you deal with this?

Reach out to the marine, as it's a low RP name. I'd be OK with them finishing the round with the name as it's not like 'Philup Deeznuts', provided they acknowledged it'd be changed for next time.

You see a Maintenance Tech running around in armor and carrying a rifle. The security level is green and there has been no threat to the ship in the round at this point.

This is an IC issue, I wouldn't do anything at this stage. It really depends if the behaviour escalates into griefing so I might watch a little.

A Marine ahelps that they were killed by a survivor. It is early round, the Marines have just landed, and the survivor claims that they were outright hostile to all Marines from the get-go and openly stated their intentions. How do you deal with this?

Although I've seen it testmerged I believe at the moment this is still not allowed, with the exception of a CLF Survivor that -is- allowed (apparently this sometimes spawns on LV).

Provided this is not that exception, I would reach out to both to hear their side of the story, there could have been an IC issue that led to it perhaps?

I would most likely use my godly powers to heal the marine if no justification could be provided unless there are medics/docs nearby and it can be handled IC.

You receive an ahelp from a player stating that an MP has locked them up in permanent confinement for running into Requisitions and taking an attachment that was laying around.

Ask which MP, check with the MP what the actual charges were. If reasonable and in accordance with marine law then this is an IC issue. If they actually just took an attachment and they're a new player I might suggest that this is something to pass to a SEA but it's an IC issue fundamentally unless anything changes.

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?

Trigger one of those super fancy ARES announcements, once the marines see only 4 Xenos left they are likely to push once they realize that.

It depends how far into the round we are, if it's at 3+ hours we could deploy one of those Xeno nukes.

You are playing as a medic, and another medic overdoses all your patients and prevent marines from being revived. It seems like it may be on purpose. How do you deal with this situation?

It's pretty easy to do this by accident if someone is a new medic, he could be doing painkillers for all or epi for pre-res etc. I'd keep it IC initially and ask if they know what they did and it's impact. if they didn't, I'd teach them, if they did do so on purpose and it's greatly affected the round I might aheal the marines that were impacted. But I always try to start IC.

The round ends, a Marine starts shooting a hostile CLF member and the CLF member ahelps about being killed after the round ended.

It's a hostile faction, it doesn't count as EORG.

A Marine is running around disarming, punching and stealing gear at round start. You receive an ahelp from one of the victims.

I'd check playtimes and potentially scramble a SEA/SEA it myself. Running around punching and stealing gear is something I've seen the balds do frequently upon spawning in. If they have previous notes for the same thing I would escalate to a warning/temp ban - but I'd definitely try speaking to them to understand if it's a lack of knowledge driving the behaviour. This is classic shennanigans though and is noteworthy especially if the gear stolen is valuable.

You receive an ahelp from a Marine saying that he was killed by another Marine. When you ask the murderer why, he said it was because the other Marine had punched him.

This is a classic case of IE, explain to the player how this is an improper escalation, note them, move on. If frequent/recent cases in their notes of the same behaviour then warning/ban.

You find out that there is an improper mutiny occuring. The mutineers are rallying together and preparing to storm the CIC. How would you attempt to resolve this situation?

I'd use the special orange MOOC command y'all got to remind them of the rules and process for staging a mutiny.

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.

Issue a general reminder on our rules regarding racism and let the player who reported it know they did the right thing reporting it.

A marine opens fire at round start in briefing killing multiple marines and instantly logs off.

Ban hammer.

You see a player playing a Xeno larva/chestburster run towards the frontlines straight from the Xeno hive the second they burst and die.

They might not know what they are doing or be a first time Xeno player, I'd ask them why they did it and hear them out. Assuming a clean note history of course.

You see a Xeno memeing, saying AYYLMAO, REEEEEE etc in hivemind chat, as well as insulting the Queen.

Issue a reminder to the Xeno that this is a medium-RP server.

A Xeno player calls the shuttle a "dropship". A different Xeno player ahelps that it's low role play to call it a "dropship".

This is allowed under the rules in the same manner that marines know a 'Prae' vs a 'Rav'. In the case of dropship although they could call it a bird they are allowed to use familiar terms.

A Command staff player at briefing near round-start mentions there are aliens on the planet. You receive an ahelp from a marine regarding this.

I'd issue a reminder to the CIC player that although they might 'suspect' it as a possibility because they've ICly encountered them before, they do not in fact 'know' that there are Xenos on the planet.

You find a Marine killing another Marine on the EVAC Pod to take the last spot and claims it was RP as he was saving himself. There are two other marines in the pod along with him.

That's straight up RP I'll allow it. It might be worth checking the logs to see the manner it was carried out in.

A player insults you after you warn them for a minor issue and begins ranting in LOOC or dchat about staff and mentions you specifically, referring to you as an 'idiot' and a 'retard'.

I'm not going to bring an argument into a public forum so I would DM them and remind them of the process to make a staff report if they disagree with my decision and that insulting staff is against the rules. If they keep going then I'd take action, emotions can run high after a warning so a little grumbling is OK.

A player ahelps saying he was hugged by a Xeno when he was ssd, and wants the larva be removed from him via admin powers. How do you handle the ahelp?

Unfortunately this is an IC issue, if they went SSD on their own I would give them a reminder on good places to go SSD for a few moments and wish them the best of luck with their upcoming birth.

You see a fellow staff member give wrong information in an Adminhelp or incorrectly enforce a rule.

PM them.

Two staff are arguing in msay if an ahelp is breaking a rule. Because the staff who took the ahelp thinks the player broke a rule, they ban the player based on their interpretation of the rules, with others thinking the person was fine. What would you do?

I'm not involved in the situation and 3 chefs sounds like too many for the same stew. If it's particularly alarming then I'd escalate it to one of the management if any are around.

Why would you like to become a moderator?

I like being a mentor but I do wish I could help out a bit more. I became a mentor on the advice of staff, and I'm applying to be a trial moderator on the advice of staff . I like helping out and moderator looks like it can be quite rewarding, it also -crucially- means I can keep mentoring new players also. This server is awesome and anything I can do to keep it going I'm happy to help with. I've even done banner art!

In your opinion, what is the most important quality for a moderator?

Being approachable whilst maintaining a reputation for fairness is key in my view. I'm sure there is lots little annoyances so maintaining a cool head and methodically working through the situation is paramount in my eyes.

Anything else you want to add?

Would like to say thanks to Firecharge for the encouragement to apply and also to all the moderation team for setting a standard I want to be a part of. No worries if this app goes through or not I'll continue helping the newbies.

[VagabondZro79]

First off, it's good to start seeing more mentors join the mod team, it's really cool. Secondly, I feel your answer could use a little more work here and their on explanation and detail of what could happen. I will stay neutral on this, but I will say you have put some effort into this. Keep up the spirit and hopefully you might join the mod team.

[senen182]

Yeah if there is consensus that it's not enough effort I'm happy to resubmit at a later date, I looked at the amount of detail successful applications had put. If you can provide an expectation e.g. 1 paragraph / 2 paragraphs I'm happy to resubmit with the required LOD?

[VagabondZro79]

In opinion, some of the statements as I said could use a little more investigation for some of them.

A player randomly shoots someone at round start and MPs have detained him.
This is an IC issue so I wouldn't necessarily do anything. I might watch just to make sure rules were being followed but it looks like the situation can be handled Icly.

You could do a little more investigating into why. Of course they may have followed with escalation, but we still don't want to see people around shooting people if they didn't. I'm just looking for people that may go the extra step to investigate something minor if something were to happen is all. Of course some answer may not be correct because you probably wouldn't know much on how we operate and that's acceptable, you'd probably learn those skills over time if you do get accepted. I'm a stickler when it comes to getting things investigated is all. In the end however I still think you've left a good impression on me to make me believe that you have the potential, your asking for feedback and that's really great. To anybody else that reads this I want them to know that I have a positive opinion towards you.

Now that that's out of the way I'd like to see your time on the server if you would provide it.

Also sorry for not quoting shit, I'm not to tech savy of the forums.

[senen182]

In opinion, some of the statements as I said could use a little more investigation for some of them.

A player randomly shoots someone at round start and MPs have detained him.
This is an IC issue so I wouldn't necessarily do anything. I might watch just to make sure rules were being followed but it looks like the situation can be handled Icly.

You could do a little more investigating into why. Of course they may have followed with escalation, but we still don't want to see people around shooting people if they didn't. I'm just looking for people that may go the extra step to investigate something minor if something were to happen is all. Of course some answer may not be correct because you probably wouldn't know much on how we operate and that's acceptable, you'd probably learn those skills over time if you do get accepted. I'm a stickler when it comes to getting things investigated is all. In the end however I still think you've left a good impression on me to make me believe that you have the potential, your asking for feedback and that's really great. To anybody else that reads this I want them to know that I have a positive opinion towards you.

Now that that's out of the way I'd like to see your time on the server if you would provide it.

Also sorry for not quoting shit, I'm not to tech savy of the forums.

Hey man yeah sorry you're right - particularly on this answer I wasn't very descriptive. What I meant was that I wouldn't take any action if it is in fact confirmed to be as described, I would definitely observe just as a matter of habit (I do love a good spectate) to confirm - I get the underlying point here that we musn't just speculate and must thoroughly investigate and I wholeheartedly agree.

Sure thing here's my time below, I've mainly done marine time but have an OK stint of Xeno:

Human 429.6 HOURS
Squad Rifleman 71.3 HOURS
Staff Officer 51.1 HOURS
Squad Weapons Specialist 44.7 HOURS
Squad Combat Technician 43.9 HOURS
Pilot Officer 39.9 HOURS
Squad Radio Telephone Operator 35 HOURS
Vehicle Crewman 19.5 HOURS
Researcher 18.8 HOURS
Corporate Liaison 14.1 HOURS
Doctor 13.1 HOURS
Squad Smartgunner 9.4 HOURS
Squad Hospital Corpsman 8.6 HOURS
Senior Enlisted Advisor 8.6 HOURS
Military Police 8.1 HOURS
Squad Leader 8 HOURS
Ordnance Technician 6.5 HOURS
Chief Medical Officer 4.1 HOURS
Maintenance Technician 3.6 HOURS
MP Cadet 3 HOURS
Dropship Crew Chief 2.7 HOURS
Nurse 2.5 HOURS
Executive Officer 2.4 HOURS
Military Warden 2.4 HOURS
Mess Technician 1.8 HOURS
Survivor 1.4 HOURS
Chief Engineer 1.4 HOURS
Cargo Technician 1.3 HOURS
Honor Guard 0.7 HOURS
Combat Reporter 0.7 HOURS
Mortar Crew 0.6 HOURS
Working Joe 0.1 HOURS
MARSOC Operator 0.1 HOURS


Xenomorph 47.3 HOURS
Carrier 11.2 HOURS
Sentinel 7.5 HOURS
Bloody Larva 5.7 HOURS
Spitter 5.2 HOURS
Drone 5.1 HOURS
Runner 3.4 HOURS
Boiler 3.2 HOURS
Burrower 2.8 HOURS
Hivelord 2.4 HOURS
Lurker 0.6 HOURS
Defender 0.2 HOURS
Ravager 0 HOURS
Warrior 0 HOURS

[VagabondZro79]

I'd like to turn my neutral stance. I'm giving you a +1 pal, I really hope to see you part of the team.

[Firecharge123]

Hey sennen, I have seen you as part of the mentor team for quite some time now. I think you have great potential to be part of the moderation team, and have the general idea on what to do on most of these situations. A few of your answers are a bit wrong, however most of the issues involve investigation/issuing punishment - However, these things will 100% be able to be addressed out in training. Moderation is no easy task, however, again, you have the spirit of a good moderator and being a mentor means you have a great understanding of the game which really does help a lot.

While most of your answers themselves could be different, id feel it would be redundant to answer the same questions, again so answer these few questions then ill give my +1/-1:


1.) Someone starts shooting a bunch of marines on the front line for no apparent reason, someone said in an ahelp that they are taking grenades from grenade spec, and using them for grefing the front, what do you do?


2.) A person ahelps that there is a guy running around with the name 'walter white' and they are making meth, what do you do?


3.) You get a PM saying the person is the queen and needs to go, what do you do?




P.S. Yes I know that most of your moderation skills are not entirely adressed when you are applying, however use your intuition here and figure what can you do/what punishments (if any) should be issued. Good luck!

[Tsunamico]

Ayo! How are you?
So, you application looks genuine of good intent, though I see some issues here and there. I see those issues being ironed out with time as Tmod with you seeing the inner workings and all. But what I most worry here is the LACK of any hints on how exactly someone will be punished in case of an infraction.

A quick look into one for an example? Here:

You receive an ahelp from a player stating that an MP has locked them up in permanent confinement for running into Requisitions and taking an attachment that was laying around.

"Ask which MP, check with the MP what the actual charges were. If reasonable and in accordance with marine law then this is an IC issue. If they actually just took an attachment and they're a new player I might suggest that this is something to pass to a SEA but it's an IC issue fundamentally unless anything changes."

Up here, we have your response for this question, but remember one thing: Remember Rule 11, under Mandatory Obedience.

"The following roles are required to follow Marine Law by the server rules. Breaking Marine Law may result in jobbans or further consequences.

All Military Police roles
Senior Enlisted Advisor
USCM Synthetics"

So, what if he did prevarication, and illegally put more charges so it got permaed? This is actually the most likely here by the way that ML is calculated, and depending on the gravity of all of this.. My guy can get Jbanned from MP along with a lengthy ban.

Though, I'm going to trust our training system and on your game knowledge to help you very quickly iron this out.
The best of luck, see you out there in the battlefields!

+1

[senen182]

I'd like to turn my neutral stance. I'm giving you a +1 pal, I really hope to see you part of the team.

Thanks for the +1 and I appreciate the advice I'll take it on moving forward.

[senen182]

Hey sennen, I have seen you as part of the mentor team for quite some time now. I think you have great potential to be part of the moderation team, and have the general idea on what to do on most of these situations. A few of your answers are a bit wrong, however most of the issues involve investigation/issuing punishment - However, these things will 100% be able to be addressed out in training. Moderation is no easy task, however, again, you have the spirit of a good moderator and being a mentor means you have a great understanding of the game which really does help a lot.

While most of your answers themselves could be different, id feel it would be redundant to answer the same questions, again so answer these few questions then ill give my +1/-1:


P.S. Yes I know that most of your moderation skills are not entirely adressed when you are applying, however use your intuition here and figure what can you do/what punishments (if any) should be issued. Good luck!

Hey Firecharge thanks for the recognition there, likewise and clearly you also had the potential . I appreciate the feedback there that although I have a few things wrong that you still believe with my current attributes I can fill these gaps. You're totally correct ofc and I was hoping I could get more detail on the trial moderator training and (ideally) someone who I can bounce some Qs to (I promsie not to be too cumbersome) just to sense-check my decisions.

1.) Someone starts shooting a bunch of marines on the front line for no apparent reason, someone said in an ahelp that they are taking grenades from grenade spec, and using them for grefing the front, what do you do?

Alrighty so what do we know so far.
- We have a report that someone is taking grenades from the grenade spec and griefing the front with them
- It's a fact that they are shooting the marines on the front-line for no apparent reason

If these two items are established I've confirmed both to be true I first need to assess whether these are mutually exclusive. I'd ask the GL what's happening so I can get a quick thread on the whole 'passing grenades' thing and whether that's a seperate confused issue or it's the same issue as the person shooting the marines. If it's the same person or separate I'd have to say my response would probably differ. Please excuse the time periods I use as I am hoping to learn more about punishment severity durations from you guys.

If A: It's the same person shooting marines as taking the grenades from the GL spec. If the GL spec gave grenades knowingly then he'll be treated the same as guilty by association in my book (if knowingly). If unknowingly, i.e. someone asked him for grenades then used them this way I'd probably give him the benefit of the doubt unless there's something in note history or previous reports about him doing this sort of stuff. ICly/OOCly he's just being a kind spec unless there's something to indicate otherwise. The punishment I would levy would be an immediate 24 hour ban if no note history and if note history honestly I'd probably check with you guys if we can be more severe and go for like a month+ because the guy is clearly just intent on ruining the game for others. If serious harm had been done to the marine front-line (i.e. they had lost a choke because of it) I'd aheal, but if medics coped and the round was not affected there may not be a need to aheal but I'd check closely. This is allowable under Rule 4.
If B: It's two separate people, then I'd apply the punishment under scenario A to the shooter, and the grenade griefer honestly I'd check if they know how to use grenades (after checking history in case they lie) because alot of newbies struggle with grenades and I've even seen players with 30+ hours mhelp discreetly to ask how to use them. If it was intentional shit then Scenario A applies under Rule 4.

2.) A person ahelps that there is a guy running around with the name 'walter white' and they are making meth, what do you do?
lol this is a fantastic question because there's three things going on here in my view. We have a Rule 9 (char name) and a Rule 2 (roleplay) breach sort of together. Rule 2 tells us that we should play a reasonably realistic character, but if the guy is making meth then I'm inclined to believe he's familiar with the mechanics of the game. It's possible they come from another server but pretty unlikely so I would check the persons playtimes to confirm this, I'd also check their note history for any similar sort of behaviour and I would class this whole thing under Rule 2 to be honest, the Name is just part of it. I'd contact the player and ask them what they're doing and whether they're aware that it's against Rules 9 and 2 (I'd probably also include a link to this so the player knows). If they were humble about it and hadn't read the rules (even though I know there's no excuse because the game says this on start-up) I'd note them and make 'em sit out the round. If previous occurrences like bullshit RP/griefing etc I'd escalate to a 24 hour ban. I'd be inclined to be softer if it's a genuine misunderstanding though because I'm a mentor and we're all soft AF if we think someone is new.

3.) You get a PM saying the person is the queen and needs to go, what do you do?
I think I've actually seen this happen before and from memory it does depend a little bit on circumstance. An AFK queen is a death sentence for Xenos so I would first tell the player thanks for letting me know and of course they can go - we aren't a prison - but next time please think twice about picking queen if you think you might have to AFK. I would probably use the QM voice because I can sort of do this ICly by asking the Xenos which of them has the potential to be moulded into a queen or something along those lines - hopefully someone puts their hand up, even better if it's a recognisable lettering but anyone with a few letters shows some experience and queen is only timelocked by like 5 hours of Xeno if IIRC. Depending on chat activity I may also try xooc to get a volunteer as I've seen mods do this before whilst playing as Xeno. I'm not sure if we would be allowed to delay a marine drop if it was early, maybe by shooting a fax from HC I would need to check with one of you what the guidelines were. Just so that the round impact is mitigated, it's important the chaos plays out as intended .