Moderator Application
Personal Information
Byond ID? Tsunamico
CM Character? Mark Connor
Are you 16 or older? Yes
Timezone GMT-3
On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate? 5
Qualifications
Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)? Yes
Do you play any servers aside from CM-SS13? No
Provide links to any previous Colonial Marines applications that you've made: N/A
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, 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? Absolutely
Common Staff Situations
A player randomly shoots someone at round start and MPs have detained him. Monitor player. if he has notes of him doing this before, check punishments given before. use same punishment and a bit more if needed, lest its a first or its infrequent. If the player's exceeding, tempban and note.
A player ahelps that a predator has violated the honor code when killing him, what should you do? Check if Pred actually has broken it, ask for proof, then forward it to the one responsible
You see a player walking around the ship naked and clearly lost at roundstart. Call the SEA to help the player, or, if REALLY needed be, enter the round as SEA to help.
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. Keep it cool, if appliable, call a superior to handle it.
Else, proceed as normal.
A player ahelps that a marine is named 'John Doe', how do you deal with this? Hard to pinpoint. John Doe is a reference to the use of the name of an unknown person, but its nothing strong nor pinpoints to an character or living person. Advise the player to change name, and analyze how he plays. if its not a troll, let other staff know, and let them act on it if they wish to.
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. Doing only that is not punishable by a ban or anything, its IC. but if it happens repeatedly, then subtle and note him.
Otherwise, IC MP problem.
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? If survivor's not CLF, then Jban and note acoordingly.
If CLF, explain to the marine that Ahelped me
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. Check the situation first and foremost. check if he isn't lying, and see how much brig time it would be.
Brig time for his crimes is of 17.5 minutes, not Permabrig.
Notify and punish the MP that did it IC or OOC depending on the situation. if IC, charge with Illegal Confinement or Sedition.
If OOC, note and temp Jban and tell another MP, MW, or CMP to change the prisoner from permabrig to a cell so he can get his correct jailtime.
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? Give ten more minutes to see if it unclogs on its own.
After that, decide who to target to force the round on. USCM or the Xeno hive.
So we have two cases:
USCM:
If the USCM has an CL that is alive, send a fax to him, telling him that W-Y wants this situation solved already "OR ELSE." so the CL goes to pressure the officers.
If there is no CL, or if the above doesn't work, I message the officers as HC, through the fax in CIC, commanding them to attack immediately "OR ELSE"
Hive:
Speaking as QM, I'd command the queen to control the Dropship and to board the ship, because "your sisters in the starts need you quickly" or something like that.
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? I'd IC ask him why they are doing that. if they are doing it with malice, I'd ask another moderator to help me while I stopped him IC, because my character wouldn't let someone just randomly murder people
I'd make sure they were noted and punished accoordingly.
The round ends, a Marine starts shooting a hostile CLF member and the CLF member ahelps about being killed after the round ended. Check if the CLF was still combat able and not brigged. if he was still able, i'd explain to him its still valid.
If he was brigged and someone entered the brig to kill him, I'd note and ban the one who did that with EORG
A Marine is running around disarming, punching and stealing gear at round start. You receive an ahelp from one of the victims. IC problem for MPs to deal with. If it escalates, interveine and deal with it the propper way.
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. Textbook impropper escalation. Ban and note acoordingly, lest there's a VERY clear reason to do it IC.
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? Call another moderator to go help me crowd control ASAP. Then proceed to investigate to see if it truly improper. If not improper, have CIC call an ERT through fax for MP ERT as usual.
If improper, sleep all assailants, tell them to knock it off. Those that don't, kicked and possibly banned for one hour, and noted. Any rowdy crew after the dissolution, let IC MP handle.
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. message all participants to lower their tone and punish however it is fit for their actions.
If by my orders they present worse behaviour, ban the active participants for 5 hours, I will not be lenient towards things like this that have been CLEARLY warned.
If racist comments are to appear on the discord, contact iscord moderators for them to be quickly banned too with the proof that they did it before, were properly warned, and should be punished.
A marine opens fire at round start in briefing killing multiple marines and instantly logs off. Check combat logs, see their name and key to track their notes. Immediate 28 day ban, using other notes to contribute for a permanent ban.
Talk to other staff to try to mitigate damage.
You see a player playing a Xeno larva/chestburster run towards the frontlines straight from the Xeno hive the second they burst and die. Check their account's playtime on CM. First time playing? 1 hour ban.
If they played the game before, or show that they were just trolling, note, 24h jban from xeno, and 3 hour Tban
You see a Xeno memeing, saying AYYLMAO, REEEEEE etc in hivemind chat, as well as insulting the Queen. subtle or admin message them to get in with RP standards
1 hour ban and note for bad RP.
A Xeno player calls the shuttle a "dropship". A different Xeno player ahelps that it's low role play to call it a "dropship". Advise whoever's LRPing to fix their roleplaying standards and to call it by the correct name on the Xeno page, that I would likely send as a link.
Repeated offenders would generate a note, and harsher orders, until he gets a small Jban for it, propperly escalating their LRP.
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. If he doesn't correct himself, tell him yo apologise LOOC and clarity to all that marines don't know roundstart there are xenos on the planet. if he doesn't, Note and Jban for 3 hours
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. Question is badly written, dosen't specify if the number of marines on it counts the one that is dead. if it counts the one that is dead, then this marine is lying to a moderator. As a pod has THREE hypersleep chambers, if the number counts the dead marine, he would have killed one for nothing, for there would be three spaces, enough for the three.
IN CASE THE QUESTION DOESN'T INCLUDE THE DEAD MARINE:
Textbook case of exemption from improper escalation IF THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA MEET:
- MARINE IS IN IMMEDIATE DANGER
-THERE ARE NO OTHER PODS, OR THEY ARE UNREACHABLE BECAUSE OF THE IMMEDIATE DANGER
That warrants panic from the IC character, and improper excalation doesn't apply.
p.s.: Question ommits a lot of other possible information, not because it only tells this, but because the text below tells its a tricky one. IN a real scenario, I would have birdseye view to solve this, and would know exactly what happened with chat logs, and combat logs. Its hard to say the exact outcome of this but assuming its the dichotomy above, there are the following possibilities.
1: He killed for no reason, because there was enough space for him:
If he is of a high rank, Jban for 6 hours, Tban for 3, this high because that means the marine was lying because there was no reason, because he could just have entered a third pod.
2: There was NO SPACE for the marine, but there wasn't immediate danger
Once again, If he is of a high rank, Jban for 6 hours, Tban for 3, this high because that means the marine was lying because there was no reason, for he could go find another pod.
3: The situation COVERS HIS ACTIONS of murdering a fellow marine as an act of self preservation
In this case, I'd advise the marine to not do that again, but leave the marine without notes or bans, independent of rank.
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'. Mostly ignore, if not join him for the memes in Dchat, but nothing in LOOC.
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? Being SSD gives no protection to you from ANY harm, lest there is another rule that was broken by another marine or Xeno when that happened. I would refuse to help and tell him to take action immediately instead of requesting help through Ahelp.
You see a fellow staff member give wrong information in an Adminhelp or incorrectly enforce a rule. Tell my colleague the correct information for him to correct himself, or to get the green light from them to correct it.
Else, get logs, post it in admin chat and request help from seniors to deal with it.
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 call the two staff to go to the discord chat to talk this out, and have anyone there discuss that too and decide the best course of action.
Why would you like to become a moderator? I would like to become a moderator to help with keeping RP standards and RP fun up, so the game feels like the immersive USCM simulator it can be.
I would love to work with faxes and any types of response, be it marine or xeno side, although I don't play much on the Xeno side, I'll be more than happy to help.
It would be nice to take on a lighter role of staff to take care of this server, while keeping my free time, but donating some to the USCM cause.
And with me working on the backlines with other staff to ensure there's someone higher people can contact through fax and other means that makes it feel like there's a wider chain of command and that they are part of an actual space armada.
Same for the Xenos, so they feel powerful and unstoppable like the actual ones are, and to know there is a massive wide web of other colonies that they must make justice to, helping with their own RP standards that are quite... low.
In your opinion, what is the most important quality for a moderator? Be flexible, so you're not just spitting roles, for they're up to interpretation, and I have seen a rule of thumb to let lighter things slide if its positive for the cool RP.
Anything else you want to add? A bit scared to add things here, And I know its more walls of text to read, but lets see..
Adding to the question above, There can't be a single defining quality for moderating, I'd say, so here are some extras that i'd like to add too:
Be calm, so you can deal with the worst of the internet and take it calmly.
Be open minded, so you can hear to the higher staff and better yourself, and adjust yourself to what the server standards are.