Firecharge123 - Moderator Application

[Schalkguy]

Great answers, +1. I would have to note that "A Marine is running around disarming, punching and stealing gear at round start. You receive an ahelp from one of the victims." falls under round start schenanigans and is noteworthy. And if the gear they stole is unique (e.g. spec gear) that is also an OOC issue. I've had this exact circumstances happen several times, don't forget about that rule.

[ito726]

There is a distinct lack in how your go about investigating in your answers. Beyond that most of your answers are ok. Playtimes you are a bit low on Xeno hours, so you may have a bit of an issue dealing with Xeno-specific rulings or issues.

Stuff like:
Is it ok to insult the queen?
For what reasons can queen banish?
Can a queen banish a larva for calling them fat for instance,?
Is it ok to make a conga line?
How many walls deep is it ok to make defenses?
What is considered to be a meta rush?
Where can a queen even make a hive, how close to the lzs can it be?

[LilPenpusher]

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

See if it was an accident first. If if was alert them to be more careful about handling weapons. (if they are new)

If it was not an accident, check for previous notes if they have done this before. If so add another note and tell them they are being noted for this behavior.

You mention checking if it was an accident, so checking notes would always be apart of doing so, and doing so would tell you at least a small part of whether this person is traditionally malicious like this or not. Notes aside, investigating by using notes, playtimes and any involved marine players is the correct way. Depending on prior note history, escalation may be warranted - Griefing is an OOC issue, after all.

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

Tell the person that I do not manage issues with predator whitelisted persons, and tell them to report on the forums or contact the pred council.

Correct. Player Reports or Discord PMs to the Council are the way to address WL issues. Only way for Staff to intervene is if a WL player violates actual server rules. To be safe, ask what the Pred player supposedly did wrong, just so you're in the know about whether it's a server rulebreak or a WL issue.

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

Contact the in-game SEA about the new guy. If there is no SEA awake PM them if they need help. I can always help ICly if I am spawned in already as a human role.

You have the capability to spawn yourself in as SEA if you are spectating as Staff. If a player requires an SEA for instructions but none are available, then you are more than able and welcome to take that part on for yourself - or any other human role you're playing already, so long as said role is not a limited role that is required for game progression. Good call.

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.

Always stay cool.

Alert the person that being hostile in PMs is not okay, and they should stop doing it. If they want to be forwarded to another admin+ staff member, as I am the one handling the ahelp, I will not forward it to another member. If they think my performance is lacking, I will inform them that they can report me on the forums.

Good answer. Staying level-headed and not responding to toxicity with more toxicity is good de-escalation, and otherwise your answer follows staff procedure. Staff issues have to be resolved via Staff Reports, otherwise all people are doing is netting themselves a ban possibly.

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

LRP names are not tolerated in the game.

PMing the individual about their name and how it isn't accepted according to server rules. Informing them about changing the name/how to change their name if they do not know, and if not changing it by next round be issued a warning.

Generally speaking we change bad names during an ongoing round, and don't wait for the next one, since it might bother other players seeing them. Other than that, good answer.

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 ICly issue and should only be dealt with if they are grefing in any way, such as shooting people for no reason, giving appropriate repercussion such as a note and/or warning depending on what happens.

Correct, but it may be wise to keep an eye out since this may well be a prelude to either deploying without cause/auth and frontlining (OOCly not allowed) or otherwise doing 'shenanigans' which may or may not escalate to OOC issues (griefing among other things, as you mentioned). Depending on your mood, feel free to send a fax or ARES announcement to the MPs about this random MT gearing up for combat despite no threats being present.

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?

Survivors unless an event are not supposed to be hostile towards marines.

I would aheal the marine if there are no medics nearby/anyone who can revive them, and PM the survivor in question why they killed the marine, and inform them about not being able to kill marines (they are here to save you...) If the survivor continues being hostile/ignores PM and reminder, slap a note on them about unnecessary hostility as a survivor.

Players may still be ahealed even if Medics are nearby just so any internal damage is also fully healed. If the Survivor ignores your PMs, asleep them until they respond. If they are hostile, tell them to make a staff report about your ruling and that toxicity to staff is against the rules. Also check their notes - maybe this isn't the first time they do something like this, and depending on their activity/playtime they might well be faking 'not knowing' about this.

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.

I would PM the MP about why they locked the person away, what their reasoning was and to let them go if it is only for that reason.

If it was out of baldness, I would tell the MP to correct the sentence and let them out of perma brig and inform the SEA in game (if there is one) and/or PM information bout marine law to help the MP learn proper MP stuff ect.

If the MP has notes of doing previous malpractice MPing, give them a note or warning

A note is de-facto a warning, but beyond that, if they already do have notes of MP fuck-ups then a jobban may be viable, for them to appeal on the forums. Also make sure to ask OTHER players involved however. Consider asking the Req staff who probably witnessed this, as well. You want to get the full, unbiased picture.

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?

Use a QM alert to the xenos pushing them to go kill the last of the tallhosts and get caps if possible.

Message/ARES the marines low xenomorph presence left, redeploy and to kill them all for the glory of the USCM.

Marines are generally less likely to obey any call from ARES to do anything - if anything they'll probably C4 it, knowing our players. It may be more viable to Subtle Message the CO/XO and tell them to redeploy, maybe with a financial incentive in mind or something like that. Xenos, meanwhile, should generally obey QM commandments and so telling them to go up because Marines are nearly wiped will probably result in them doing so.

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?

If the medic is clearly bald, tell the other medic to properly dose the marines/how to do so. If you can communicate, do so. Try to fix them myself/with other medics, can always tell marines/doctors/medics on comms about whats going on and for assistance.

If there are other moderators/admins on, tell them (communication is key) and alert them. They can check if it is on purpose or not.

Assuming I am the only moderator or staff that can deal with this online and they are clearly doing this to grief them, tell them ICly or PM them about it and tell them to stop. check if theres notes on previous similar behavior of being a griefer/ODing people like this and give additional note/warning.

I can MOOC and tell the ODed marines to ahelp if they were ODed and died because of the person ODing and aheal them, and possible ban/job ban the medic.

First of:

MOOC is *NOT* the way to address this. At all. MOOC is for major transgressions that concern the entire Marine force. Stuff like an improper mutiny or riot where mass punishments are probably gonna be issued. This concerns two, maybe a few more people getting OD'd. Do not use MOOC which is visible to everyone.

Second:

If you are playing and are witnessing someone doing this, then you are considered to be 'biased' and 'involved'. As such, under most circumstances, you CANNOT take an ahelp about the situation and cannot aghost and PM them, because your judgement will inevitably be biased. Another staff member would have to handle it. The only way for you to bwoink them is if they started outright ignoring everyone and ODing people en masse in a blatant attempt to mass grief. Since this would massively derail the round, you should intervene despite being involved for the sake of maintaining enjoyability and playability of the round.

Your first suggestion is very good. ICly handling it by either telling them how to do their job right, or otherwise handling the situation in-character over comms (maybe inform Command/MPs) is good.

Informing staff is also good. If you are the only staff member and witness a rule break, you will be able to ping moderators/admins on the staffcord to request assistance and have them handle it that way. If none respond, then you are stuck resolving it ICly. Maybe ziptie them and bring them back to the ship.

After the round, you should make a player report about the incident for admins to review. You cannot retroactively bwoink them once the round ends either. In this instance, unless it's mass grief, you are effectively the same as any normal player and will have to player report if no active staff take the ahelp you made.

Wrong answer therefore. Staff cannot resolve situations they are personally involved in, as stated in Staff protocols.

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

CLF are a hostile faction to the USCM. Unless stated otherwise for RP purposes, they are allowed to kill each other. It is not EORG to kill a hostile faction member after the round has ended.

I presume you would tell the ahelping player this, and if so, correct.

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

This is an IC issue and should be dealt with by non violent means (IE shooting the person that is attacking/stealing their stuff)

If the person has previous notes/is using weapons (knives guns baseball bats) and is not stopping. PM them and add a note to them. If they have previous notes on such actions, escalate to a warning or ban.

Stealing gear is indeed an IC issue, though people are allowed to reasonably escalate since it is, in the end, theft of their personal items. That said, stealing RARE items, such as spec gear, the CO's gun, or items that cost vendor points, should generally be seen with more scrutiny since stealing them "just for fun" may be considered grief if done just for the heck of it. It will depend on player conduct in that case (whether they're being a dick about it and if any rp is being done regarding it at all, maybe they want to sell it back to the original owners for a quick buck?) and whether they have any notes regarding this behaviour. If it's a repeat offender, tell them off, and issue another note, or ban depending on just how bad their notes are.

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.

Check logs and see what happened. Aheal dead marine if there is no medic/doctor and warn/note to the murderer and inform them of this action.

You don't actually mention why the offender was wrong here - which of course is the presumed improper escalation. Investigating is correct, but always make sure to tell both sides that it was improper escalation and that punching goes to knives, then to guns. If the offender has notes about IE, then consider a ban. Ahealing is correct, in any case.

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?

MOOC the mutiny is not allowed, aheal anyone that has been killed/isn't being revived if there is no medic. If the mutiny does not stop, Asleep the people that are still attacking and issue bans/warnings/notes to the individuals depending on what they did.

Good answer. Remember to communicate with other online staff as well and request help handling any offenders. A mutiny may well be 8+ people and involve lots of ahelps flying towards you.

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.

PM individuals making the racist comments about how racism is not tolerated on the server. Add note about racist comments to individual.

Note is fine if the racist comment was not *that* severe. If it was a deeply racist thing, ban them. If they have ANY prior notes about racism or otherwise ignoring rules on proper conduct in chat, ban them as well.

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

That is a bannable offence no questions asked.

Questions *should* be asked, however. First off... aheal anyone dead, obviously, and possibly MOOC that the issue is being handled so people can rest easy and move on with the round.

Beyond that, investigate. Is the offender a possible multikey account? A newly created troll account? An old player even? Depending on who this player actually is, and whether they have ANY notes might shift between a 1 Month ban and a Permaban.

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

If they are a new player tell them how it is not okay to do this as it hurts the hives integrity and breaks xeno law, and say not to do it ever again.

If they are not a new player give a ban/job ban from xeno for doing this.

Outright xeno jobban may be harsh, but is acceptable. I'd say it depends on the exact situation. Otherwise good answer.

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

PM the xeno about the use of 'netspeak' is not allowed on the server and put a note. If they continue give a warning.
(Also maybe suggest the queen banish them if they do not behave)

Again, notes are essentially warnings. If they won't stop violating server rules via netspeak then they're ignoring a direct staff directive and are going to get banned. Easy as. Queen banishment may be a good IC resolution too, though. But don't just use Queen to resolve this. It's an OOC issue.

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

Calling the dropships 'dropship' is not considered LRP.

Yup.

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.

The marines do not know there are confirmed xenomorphs and should always consider that there can be anything down there not necessarily a xenomorph hive. I would PM the commanding officer about this and not to do it again.

If it is a whitelisted CO, notify the CO council about this.

Yup.

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.

I would check combat logs to see if they did in fact do this and it wasn't for the reason of getting on a evac pod, give them a note or a warning about this action.

Worded a bit weirdly so I'm not 100% sure you mean the right thing. If the incident in question was indeed over the last spot on a escape pod, then this is fine and not Improper Escalation. If it was for ANY other reason, then it was and they deserve the proper punishment. Investigating attack logs + witnesses will help you make the call.

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 would PM them that insulting staff like this isn't very nice, and remind them that insulting staff isn't allowed. If they start to chew me out or aren't stopping, issue a warning/ban.

You are already warning them by telling them it isn't allowed. If they don't stop, issue a ban and tell them they should seek out a Staff Report if they still don't agree with your ruling.

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?

If they went SSD on their own, that is their fault and it isn't really a good idea to do that in the AO or in a non secure location. If they fell SSD to internet issue or server issue, this is an ICly issue and there isn't anything I can do about it.

Correct.

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

Probably just DM them or something about it, and remind them about that rule/issue resolving or whatever. if its a huge issue/problem tell a manager

Correct. Telling another staff member is the best you can do. Whether they accept your advice is another topic. If they choose not to accept your advice, you can tell their manager.

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 would try to stay out of it as much as possible, cant really do anything in this situation. If it is becoming a big problem, tell a manager about it.

Keep things civil and/or stay out of it is a good call. Msay is not really a place to be arguing. You can give advice, but not argue. Tell their manager if you have a serious complaint about conduct.

Why would you like to become a moderator?

Keeping the game fun is a thing I want to do. The game isn't fun if someone is griefing all the players, or is disrupting someone's round for their own enjoyment.

I have been playing for far too long...I love it, I love the people, the gameplay, the staff. I think giving back to the community what they gave me would mean a lot to me.

Oorah o7 (we are all trapped in this 2D hellscape)

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

Keeping your cool in any situation, being someone that can be talked to easily by anyone, and having a good sense of fairness in actions. Being able to be fun while being professional in all of your actions is a good quality.

Can't say I disagree with any of those.

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Overall your answers are ok, though there are hiccups. I'll echo others before me who said that you were not as thorough with your answers as you maybe should have, causing you to omit some things you MAY have meant but didn't explicitly type out. The 'Don't involve yourself in ahelps you are involved in' question was answered incorrectly, but you had a good fundamental grasp of the situations with your IC approach of resolving it, so I won't be too harsh on you for that.

Overall, I know you as an active player in the playerbase. I see you plenty and know you're pretty chill. I can't say I have any objections seeing you on the Staff Team in the future.

Giving this my +1

[Firecharge123]

Thank you very much for this very helpful information. I AM going to make some quick clarifications, and answer questions.

As for the questions Ito brought up; I do know my hours are severely lacking, however I have been playing Xeno lately and do know a lot about their standard procedures what they can and cannot do.




Is it ok to insult the queen?

To an extent, yes. If the queen wants to banish them for doing so that is up to them. Xenomorphs are a hivemind and should follow the queens whim. If one of the queens minions is off its rocker and is insulting their glorious leader, that glorious leader will probably want to right their minions error. Beyond that it can be suitable for punishment.


For what reasons can queen banish?

The Queen can banish for multiple many reasons such as;

Not following orders, like being left behind on Hijack after ordering to get on.

screaming things like 'AYYY REE LMAO'

pretty much ignoring any of the queens orders or not following standard xeno procedure, the queen is in full right to remove xenos from her hive, unless it is a 'trolling' or 'meming' fashion.

Can a queen banish a larva for calling them fat for instance?

If the queen does it in a memeing fashion that is NOT okay... However upholding hive regulation is acceptable.

Is it ok to make a conga line?

Conga lines for xenomorphs are technically LRP... Unless ordered by the queen

How many walls deep is it ok to make defenses?

Anything more than 3 walls thick is borderline too many. Beyond that is just too extensive and should be removed. Obviously IF it makes sense it should be allowed for defenses. We don't want a situation like this: https://youtu.be/vvx9PRKsKKI?list=LL

What is considered to be a meta rush?

Meta rush would be xenomorphs instantly attacking the dropship full of marine who just landed and havent even set up fortifications yet and instantly take control of the dropship.

Where can a queen even make a hive, how close to the lzs can it be?

you cannot build the hive next to or around the LZ AT ALL. The hive should be in a safe, strategical location.... the caves! Or on a map without caves, an area that is far away and safe. However late into the round the queen may choose to move the hivecore closer to the LZ to protect themselves from OBs, but put them at risk of losing their ever so important hivecore.



Now for the main meat of this:

You mention checking if it was an accident, so checking notes would always be apart of doing so, and doing so would tell you at least a small part of whether this person is traditionally malicious like this or not. Notes aside, investigating by using notes, playtimes and any involved marine players is the correct way. Depending on prior note history, escalation may be warranted - Griefing is an OOC issue, after all.

Yep

Correct. Player Reports or Discord PMs to the Council are the way to address WL issues. Only way for Staff to intervene is if a WL player violates actual server rules. To be safe, ask what the Pred player supposedly did wrong, just so you're in the know about whether it's a server rulebreak or a WL issue.

Mhm

You have the capability to spawn yourself in as SEA if you are spectating as Staff. If a player requires an SEA for instructions but none are available, then you are more than able and welcome to take that part on for yourself - or any other human role you're playing already, so long as said role is not a limited role that is required for game progression. Good call.

Did not know I could spawn myself in as SEA (by adding a new slot of course.)

Good answer. Staying level-headed and not responding to toxicity with more toxicity is good de-escalation, and otherwise your answer follows staff procedure. Staff issues have to be resolved via Staff Reports, otherwise all people are doing is netting themselves a ban possibly.

Mhm

Generally speaking we change bad names during an ongoing round, and don't wait for the next one, since it might bother other players seeing them. Other than that, good answer.

Got it.

Correct, but it may be wise to keep an eye out since this may well be a prelude to either deploying without cause/auth and frontlining (OOCly not allowed) or otherwise doing 'shenanigans' which may or may not escalate to OOC issues (griefing among other things, as you mentioned). Depending on your mood, feel free to send a fax or ARES announcement to the MPs about this random MT gearing up for combat despite no threats being present.

Yep, keeping your eye on potential griefage is a must. Especially if its a person who looks like they are definitely up to no-good.

Players may still be ahealed even if Medics are nearby just so any internal damage is also fully healed. If the Survivor ignores your PMs, asleep them until they respond. If they are hostile, tell them to make a staff report about your ruling and that toxicity to staff is against the rules. Also check their notes - maybe this isn't the first time they do something like this, and depending on their activity/playtime they might well be faking 'not knowing' about this.

Got it. Aheal + Asleep(if ignoring) - Checking history + playtimes

A note is de-facto a warning, but beyond that, if they already do have notes of MP fuck-ups then a jobban may be viable, for them to appeal on the forums. Also make sure to ask OTHER players involved however. Consider asking the Req staff who probably witnessed this, as well. You want to get the full, unbiased picture.

Right.

Marines are generally less likely to obey any call from ARES to do anything - if anything they'll probably C4 it, knowing our players. It may be more viable to Subtle Message the CO/XO and tell them to redeploy, maybe with a financial incentive in mind or something like that. Xenos, meanwhile, should generally obey QM commandments and so telling them to go up because Marines are nearly wiped will probably result in them doing so.

Marines are pretty dumb indeed, indeed. Truly wise words.

First of:

MOOC is *NOT* the way to address this. At all. MOOC is for major transgressions that concern the entire Marine force. Stuff like an improper mutiny or riot where mass punishments are probably gonna be issued. This concerns two, maybe a few more people getting OD'd. Do not use MOOC which is visible to everyone.

Second:

If you are playing and are witnessing someone doing this, then you are considered to be 'biased' and 'involved'. As such, under most circumstances, you CANNOT take an ahelp about the situation and cannot aghost and PM them, because your judgement will inevitably be biased. Another staff member would have to handle it. The only way for you to bwoink them is if they started outright ignoring everyone and ODing people en masse in a blatant attempt to mass grief. Since this would massively derail the round, you should intervene despite being involved for the sake of maintaining enjoyability and playability of the round.

Your first suggestion is very good. ICly handling it by either telling them how to do their job right, or otherwise handling the situation in-character over comms (maybe inform Command/MPs) is good.

Informing staff is also good. If you are the only staff member and witness a rule break, you will be able to ping moderators/admins on the staffcord to request assistance and have them handle it that way. If none respond, then you are stuck resolving it ICly. Maybe ziptie them and bring them back to the ship.

After the round, you should make a player report about the incident for admins to review. You cannot retroactively bwoink them once the round ends either. In this instance, unless it's mass grief, you are effectively the same as any normal player and will have to player report if no active staff take the ahelp you made.

Wrong answer therefore. Staff cannot resolve situations they are personally involved in, as stated in Staff protocols.

Got it. Ask for help ALWAYS in a issue that I myself am taking part in. Handling it ICly to start immediate resolution, and have other staff deal with this properly as well as giving information to the staff about the situation.

I presume you would tell the ahelping player this, and if so, correct.

Yes

Stealing gear is indeed an IC issue, though people are allowed to reasonably escalate since it is, in the end, theft of their personal items. That said, stealing RARE items, such as spec gear, the CO's gun, or items that cost vendor points, should generally be seen with more scrutiny since stealing them "just for fun" may be considered grief if done just for the heck of it. It will depend on player conduct in that case (whether they're being a dick about it and if any rp is being done regarding it at all, maybe they want to sell it back to the original owners for a quick buck?) and whether they have any notes regarding this behaviour. If it's a repeat offender, tell them off, and issue another note, or ban depending on just how bad their notes are.

Depending on what weapon or whatever was taken + its rarity is a issue. I assume if it is somthing like just an M4 or somthing being stolen, or a bayonet. THAT would be an ICly issue. But if SADARs rocket launcher is taken or someones HPR or somthing is taken assist the person in finding it, telling the person off and issue warn/ban the person who took the article ASSUMING this is not for RP reason/is being a dick about it (depending on severity + past notes and warnings) Got it.

You don't actually mention why the offender was wrong here - which of course is the presumed improper escalation. Investigating is correct, but always make sure to tell both sides that it was improper escalation and that punching goes to knives, then to guns. If the offender has notes about IE, then consider a ban. Ahealing is correct, in any case.

Got it

Good answer. Remember to communicate with other online staff as well and request help handling any offenders. A mutiny may well be 8+ people and involve lots of ahelps flying towards you.

Yep

Note is fine if the racist comment was not *that* severe. If it was a deeply racist thing, ban them. If they have ANY prior notes about racism or otherwise ignoring rules on proper conduct in chat, ban them as well.

Right

Questions *should* be asked, however. First off... aheal anyone dead, obviously, and possibly MOOC that the issue is being handled so people can rest easy and move on with the round.

Beyond that, investigate. Is the offender a possible multikey account? A newly created troll account? An old player even? Depending on who this player actually is, and whether they have ANY notes might shift between a 1 Month ban and a Permaban.

Got it

Outright xeno jobban may be harsh, but is acceptable. I'd say it depends on the exact situation. Otherwise good answer.

Yep

Again, notes are essentially warnings. If they won't stop violating server rules via netspeak then they're ignoring a direct staff directive and are going to get banned. Easy as. Queen banishment may be a good IC resolution too, though. But don't just use Queen to resolve this. It's an OOC issue.

Right, OOC punishment should be handled accordingly.

Yup.

Mhm

Yup.

Yea

Worded a bit weirdly so I'm not 100% sure you mean the right thing. If the incident in question was indeed over the last spot on a escape pod, then this is fine and not Improper Escalation. If it was for ANY other reason, then it was and they deserve the proper punishment. Investigating attack logs + witnesses will help you make the call.

That is what I meant yes.

You are already warning them by telling them it isn't allowed. If they don't stop, issue a ban and tell them they should seek out a Staff Report if they still don't agree with your ruling.

Bad wording, should say, "I would PM them that they are not being very nice, and remind them that insulting staff isn't allowed. If they start to chew me out or aren't stopping, issue a warning/ban." But yes, addition of saying they can player/staff report me is definitely a must.

Correct.

Yea

Correct. Telling another staff member is the best you can do. Whether they accept your advice is another topic. If they choose not to accept your advice, you can tell their manager.

Mhm

Keep things civil and/or stay out of it is a good call. Msay is not really a place to be arguing. You can give advice, but not argue. Tell their manager if you have a serious complaint about conduct.

Yes

Oorah o7 (we are all trapped in this 2D hellscape)

unfortunately :dread:



Alrighty that is all. Have fun reading 50 pages of info.

[ScarletReign]

Thank you for your application!

Unfortunately, I cannot accept your application at this time due to a recent note, but I encourage you to re-apply in 30 days!

There are a few issues with some of the answers, as was pointed out in previous responses, but nothing that I think couldn't be covered during mod training, and mentor performance is a positive indication of server knowledge and an ability to positively interact with the community.