Mayro678 - Moderator Application

[Mayro678]

Byond ID: Mayro678

Colonial Marines Character: Mark Xenu , Luigi Giovanni , Anna Robinson , Some Random Beno , Queen

Age: 18

Gender: Male

Timezone: US EST

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

Depends on the type of classes I'm having during the week, but I'm mostly free in the evenings so ~35 hours a week (about five hours per day).

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

I have been a admin in a discord server before, and then a moderator in another. If you PM me about it I still am in contact with one of my previous "bosses".

Did you play any of the previous Colonial Marine servers?

I was playing the server during the Burrower evos to Carrier switch, so about three weeks of playing this server.

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

Nothing. The other servers don't really interest me at this time, so I basically only play BYOND for CM.

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?

Nope.

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

Nope.

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

Nope.

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

I am not familiar with it but I'll give it a try, if someone can walk me through it.

Common Staff Situations:
Write a description of what you would do in each of the following situations. Do not write on the same line as the situation - use the space below it or make space as needed. Failure to do this proves your inability to follow instructions and your application will be automatically denied.

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

If the MPs have detained him, it's obvious they've handled the situation. Maybe keep my eye on the guy to see if he does it again once he gets out, or ghost on him and listen to what he has to say about the situation.


2. The ship has a breach to space and a bunch of players have died or are dying as a result.

First I'd try and figure out why the breach occurred. If it was because of a player, I'd ask what the player thought they were doing / fix up the breach and revive people (if even possible), depending on the role-play circumstances around the event. If it was some sort of messed up admeme glitch I'd fix it and try and revive the people who got killed (if even possible).

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

I'd ghost them / watch them a bit to see if they were doing some RP or if they were genuinely confused. If I got the feeling they were actually lost, I'd PM them and figure out if they were new to the server. Acting accordingly if they are new to the server, I'd either help them get started and explain mechanics myself, or refer them to a in-game mentor. If it was some memer pretending to be an idiot I'd let MPs handle him.

4. A player is being very rude to you in Adminhelps and requesting to speak to an Admin+ staff member.

I'd ask him/her to please elaborate on why they needs to speak to a admin+ staff member. If it is for a reason that I could handle, I would explain to them that I am just as capable as a admin. If they continued to slander me, I would refer them to a admin and explain the harassment towards myself (they get what they want in the end, but not exactly).

5. You notice a player with a name that doesn't fit our naming rules. The player is arguing that: They've used the name for several years, no one has told them to change it before, and that they didn't know it was a rule.

Knowing that the oldest update to the game was on the day of January 3rd, 2018, I would instantly know this marine is likely lying. I would explain to them that even if no one had approached them about the name, they should've read the rules about naming. From here, I'd tell them they get one warning and a note that they violated the naming rule, so they have no excuse the next time they decide to do it.

6. You see a Maintenance Tech running around in armor and carrying a rifle. The security level is green with no threat present.

I would first see how the MPs and other staff members are handling the situation. Depending on the response to the MT, I would either intervene or not, during the game. After the round I would PM the player and ask them about what they were doing, and act accordingly.

7. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.

If the squad medic decided to perform surgery on the planet, and had his IC reasons, I would ignore this. He obviously understands the situation and is trying to do his best. If he was purposefully fucking up the surgery, however, I would intervene and make sure the person that was getting cut open gets to the doctors proper.

8. 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?

Depending on the types of aliens left, I would likely end the round there. If they had no queen, no larva, and no drones, there would be zero chance of victory for the xenos and therefore I would end the round. If there was a queen left, however, I would:
A) Command the xenos as queen mother to go siege one of the LZs or perish.
B) PM the CO or aCO of the marines and get them to send marines down planetside.
C) Give the ghosts entertainment and drop in UPP or CLF, if distress beacon was deployed.

9. The round ends, a MARINE starts shooting a hostile CLF member and the CLF member Adminhelps complaining he was killed after the round ended.

I would explain to the CLF that normal hostile v hostile killing / attacks are okay during the end of a round. What isn't okay, is the friendly v friendly killings / attacks.

10. A marine is running around disarming, punching and stealing gear at round start.

I would first see how the MPs are handling it. If there were no MPs, I'd likely spawn myself as a MP and go handle it IC. If the MPs were currently handling the situation, I'd do nothing. If there were no MPs to stop the marine, I'd wait for the command staff to do something about him. Once he was caught or after the round, I would PM the player and ask what they were doing, acting accordingly to what they tell me.

11. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why, he said it was because the other marine had punched him.

I would explain to the marine that this type of situation is covered in our rules, and a fist-fight escalating to a gun-fight is VERY hard to justify. Once investigating the situation further, if the marine who was shot was actively beating the ever-loving-piss out of the shooter, I would let MPs handle it. If the Marine punched him once, or accidentally clicked him, I would either give a warning / kick, depending on the shooting player's record of notes.

12. An issue arises that requires Admin+ abilities.

If Admin+ abilities were needed, I'd check "staffwho" and see if there were any online admin+. If there were no admin+, I would try to fix the situation as best as I could with my own mod powers.

13. 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.

I would likely use OOC chat and make sure people understood that rule 3, "Don't be a dick", can be violated by being racist. If the players continued to be racist, I would PM them directly and give them a note about the racism, explaining why what their doing was wrong.

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

First I would wait about ten minutes and see if the person who logged off logs back on, due to it being a possible lag spike and miss-click gone horribly wrong. If the player does not log on after about ten to fifteen minutes, I would assume that they did it on purpose and move to get them banned for griefing.

15. You see a player playing a xeno larva/chestburster run towards the frontlines and die.

I would wait and see their dchat about what they were doing / how they felt about it. If they purposefully did it, I'd remind them in a PM that someone who actually wanted to be a xeno just got robbed of their chance to play so they could be a dickhead. I'd likely end off giving them a warning, maybe a note, and leave it at that.

16. You see a xeno memeing, saying AYYLMAO, REEEEEE etc in hivemind chat.

Depending on how often they were doing it, and if they were spamming, would be when I'd intervene. If they are doing nothing but memeing, I would PM them and explain to them that should at least play the game the way it was intended, if they're going to play at all. Depending on their response in PM and in-game, the situation would either escalate or de-escalate.

17. A xeno player calls the shuttle a "dropship". A different xeno player complains to you that it's metagaming/failRP to call it a "dropship".

I would explain to the xeno player that complained to me that there are a lot of different people who play this game, over 100 to be in fact. They all have their reasons for playing, and if this one xeno player's only sin is calling the metal bird a dropship, just tell him yourself why he should call it a metal bird instead. I'd also squeeze in that having that kind of mindset robs xenos of a lot of their tactical planning and communication, since it is technically metagaming/failRP for xenos to say tallhosts are in medbay, or bar, or LZ1, or CIC, since xenos shouldn't know ANYTHING that humans know.

18. A Command staff player at briefing near round-start mentions there are aliens on the planet.

I wouldn't really pay attention to such a minor thing. Each planet has animals that are technically considered aliens, and In Character he could be referring to those. If he goes out of his way to explain Xenos, however, I would step in and PM him that he is metagaming.

19. A Marine kills another Marine on the EVAC Pod to take the last spot and claims it was RP as he was saving himself.

Now this would be a tough situation, because it is arguable that this RP situation is legit. I would first attempt to review chatlogs and see if the marine was properly roleplaying out the moment, if he gave the other player ample warning, and how the other player responded. In the end I might call for a more experienced staff member to help decide what actions are taken.

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

I would PM the fellow staff member and ask if they were acting off of the rule-book for a specific situation, or if they had genuinely read the rule wrong. Depending on the reply, I would act accordingly. For example, if they had gotten the rule wrong, I would explain to them what the whole rule was and make sure their mistake didn't just doom a player to being jojobanned or falsely labled. If they were senior staff and thought the rule could be circumvented for this specific occasion, due to player interest / game fun, I would ask a higher staff for guidance.

20a. You see a fellow staff member abusing his powers in-game.

I would first ask the staff member to explain what they were doing. If they gave a shitty answer, I would PM one of the senior staff members above the member abusing their power and ask that they respond accordingly to them. If it turns out I was being dumb and they weren't abusing power, I'd just skulk off and cry somewhere in my room.


21. You see a player talking in OOC chat about what he did with your mom last night.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me mum, you little 🅱eno? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Colonial Marines, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Queen Mother, and I have over 10,000 confirmed kills. I am trained in Xeno warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire marine force. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this solar system, mark my ducking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, quacker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of MTs across LV-628 and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, larva. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Alamyer and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the planet, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking mouth-tongue-thing. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

Any additional information you'd like to add?

Admemes are best memes.

[taketheshot56]

Youve gotten five notes in the past 30 days.

Three of those within the past week. Just yesterday i had to tell you to read the rules and speak to you regarding the warning shot that "Only clipped a marine" and had to explain it was against the rules.

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

If the MPs have detained him, it's obvious they've handled the situation. Maybe keep my eye on the guy to see if he does it again once he gets out, or ghost on him and listen to what he has to say about the situation.

Wrong. You go over his notes, find out why he shot someone and basing on his past notes determine if punishment is needed or not.

5. You notice a player with a name that doesn't fit our naming rules. The player is arguing that: They've used the name for several years, no one has told them to change it before, and that they didn't know it was a rule.

Knowing that the oldest update to the game was on the day of January 3rd, 2018, I would instantly know this marine is likely lying. I would explain to them that even if no one had approached them about the name, they should've read the rules about naming. From here, I'd tell them they get one warning and a note that they violated the naming rule, so they have no excuse the next time they decide to do it.

Wrong again, this server has been up since 2015

6. You see a Maintenance Tech running around in armor and carrying a rifle. The security level is green with no threat present.

I would first see how the MPs and other staff members are handling the situation. Depending on the response to the MT, I would either intervene or not, during the game. After the round I would PM the player and ask them about what they were doing, and act accordingly.

IC issue, dont get involved.

7. You see a Squad Medic performing surgery on the planet. He claims it was because there were no doctors in the FOB.

If the squad medic decided to perform surgery on the planet, and had his IC reasons, I would ignore this. He obviously understands the situation and is trying to do his best. If he was purposefully fucking up the surgery, however, I would intervene and make sure the person that was getting cut open gets to the doctors proper.

Wrong, medics cant physically perform surgery and back when they could it was not permitted.

8. 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?

Depending on the types of aliens left, I would likely end the round there. If they had no queen, no larva, and no drones, there would be zero chance of victory for the xenos and therefore I would end the round. If there was a queen left, however, I would:
A) Command the xenos as queen mother to go siege one of the LZs or perish.
B) PM the CO or aCO of the marines and get them to send marines down planetside.
C) Give the ghosts entertainment and drop in UPP or CLF, if distress beacon was deployed.

You lack the power to send in UPP or CLF.

10. A marine is running around disarming, punching and stealing gear at round start.

I would first see how the MPs are handling it. If there were no MPs, I'd likely spawn myself as a MP and go handle it IC. If the MPs were currently handling the situation, I'd do nothing. If there were no MPs to stop the marine, I'd wait for the command staff to do something about him. Once he was caught or after the round, I would PM the player and ask what they were doing, acting accordingly to what they tell me.

You shouldn't be sending yourself into the game purely to influence it, round start memery is not permitted at the current moment.

12. An issue arises that requires Admin+ abilities.

If Admin+ abilities were needed, I'd check "staffwho" and see if there were any online admin+. If there were no admin+, I would try to fix the situation as best as I could with my own mod powers.

Nope, go on slack and get an admin+

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

First I would wait about ten minutes and see if the person who logged off logs back on, due to it being a possible lag spike and miss-click gone horribly wrong. If the player does not log on after about ten to fifteen minutes, I would assume that they did it on purpose and move to get them banned for griefing.

Killing multiple people and logging off isnt a misclick, you investigate their notes and determine punishment.

15. You see a player playing a xeno larva/chestburster run towards the frontlines and die.

I would wait and see their dchat about what they were doing / how they felt about it. If they purposefully did it, I'd remind them in a PM that someone who actually wanted to be a xeno just got robbed of their chance to play so they could be a dickhead. I'd likely end off giving them a warning, maybe a note, and leave it at that.

All warnings require notes, if its a continued occurrence you xeno ban after investigating.

16. You see a xeno memeing, saying AYYLMAO, REEEEEE etc in hivemind chat.

Depending on how often they were doing it, and if they were spamming, would be when I'd intervene. If they are doing nothing but memeing, I would PM them and explain to them that should at least play the game the way it was intended, if they're going to play at all. Depending on their response in PM and in-game, the situation would either escalate or de-escalate.

Doesnt matter if they spam it or say it once, you warn them for low-RP

17. A xeno player calls the shuttle a "dropship". A different xeno player complains to you that it's metagaming/failRP to call it a "dropship".

I would explain to the xeno player that complained to me that there are a lot of different people who play this game, over 100 to be in fact. They all have their reasons for playing, and if this one xeno player's only sin is calling the metal bird a dropship, just tell him yourself why he should call it a metal bird instead. I'd also squeeze in that having that kind of mindset robs xenos of a lot of their tactical planning and communication, since it is technically metagaming/failRP for xenos to say tallhosts are in medbay, or bar, or LZ1, or CIC, since xenos shouldn't know ANYTHING that humans know.

Not at all, xeno hivemind is a manifestation of thought. How they express that thought is not metagaming, metal bird/DS/dropship is perfectly allowed.

18. A Command staff player at briefing near round-start mentions there are aliens on the planet.

I wouldn't really pay attention to such a minor thing. Each planet has animals that are technically considered aliens, and In Character he could be referring to those. If he goes out of his way to explain Xenos, however, I would step in and PM him that he is metagaming.

Nope, you warn for metagaming and announce OOCly to ignore said mentions.

19. A Marine kills another Marine on the EVAC Pod to take the last spot and claims it was RP as he was saving himself.

Now this would be a tough situation, because it is arguable that this RP situation is legit. I would first attempt to review chatlogs and see if the marine was properly roleplaying out the moment, if he gave the other player ample warning, and how the other player responded. In the end I might call for a more experienced staff member to help decide what actions are taken.

Killing for an escape pod is permitted.

20a. You see a fellow staff member abusing his powers in-game.

I would first ask the staff member to explain what they were doing. If they gave a shitty answer, I would PM one of the senior staff members above the member abusing their power and ask that they respond accordingly to them. If it turns out I was being dumb and they weren't abusing power, I'd just skulk off and cry somewhere in my room.

Nay, you gather evidence and report it directly to their manager.

21. You see a player talking in OOC chat about what he did with your mom last night.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me mum, you little 🅱eno? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Colonial Marines, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Queen Mother, and I have over 10,000 confirmed kills. I am trained in Xeno warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire marine force. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before in this solar system, mark my ducking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, quacker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of MTs across LV-628 and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, larva. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Alamyer and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the planet, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking mouth-tongue-thing. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

Dont meme on your app.....

Massive -1 I cant tell if its serious but if it is you need to take the time to go over other applications and actually read the rules before making another staff app. Preferably after two to three months of noteless/banless frequent gameplay.

[Mizari]

Yeah you're recent note history worries me...-1 from me, I dont think you're ready.

[ThesoldierLLJK]

Too many notes. You need to go at least a month without getting any notes before we would consider it
-1

[Ghostdex]

Normally I’d be all for giving you a chance but your recent notes and the memery in your app put me off, -1.

[Kavlo]

Way too many notes to even consider becoming a mod right now.

-1.

[ThesoldierLLJK]

So just another thing, I saw you're a little bit new to the server besides the notes. You've only played here about 3 weeks, and even if you didn't have any notes, I think it would be a little too soon for you to join the team.

I'm going to recommend the following:

1. Go a month without getting anymore notes
2. Play here about 2-3 months before reapplying
3. Try to get some whitelists as well

Good luck in the future.

[Mayro678]

Thanks for the constructive criticism, soldier! Seemed like this place was full of a lot of negativity / copypasta "ToO mAnY nOtEs". There's always next month .

[Frans_Feiffer]

Thanks for the constructive criticism, soldier! Seemed like this place was full of a lot of negativity / copypasta "ToO mAnY nOtEs". There's always next month .

Generally speaking, behavior like that is how you get denied quicker then a bad note history or what have you will. I don’t really know you all too well, as I do not recall seeing you around ingame or on the forums. Speaking of forums, you have 4 posts and your account was made this month. I understand I got accepted pretty early as opposed to others, but your account being so new and you only playing the server for 3 weeks is even early for my standards.

With all that said, while I have nothing against you, I just don’t think even a trial period would be a good idea, chief. I’m gonna have to -1 this for now. Come back later when you have more experience under your belt (it helps, as a lot of the issues you’ll face in ahelps and whatnot require a good understanding of the games mechanics for you to do your job) and you’re willing to take it seriously.

[Dorkkeli]

-1. Notes aint looking too good.

[Imperator_Titan]

Denied.