DESTONYX - Moderator Application

[Destonyx]

Byond ID: DESTONYX

Colonial Marines Character: Kara 'Spectre' Delitin

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Timezone: EST

On average, how many hours are you available per week to moderate? 30

Do you have any previous experience in being staff (not just SS13)? A few Gmod servers (The Mafia Underground is one), Counter Strike: Source servers, and Community Manager for a CS:GO community group.

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

What are the 3 biggest servers you play on besides CM? I used to play Citadel.... But that got boring for me.

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? Paradise Station, permanent, harm batonning clown as HoS.

Are you familiar with the chat program Slack (its use is required)? No, but that hasn't stopped me before from learning a bunch of other stuff quickly.

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.
Check the person's notes to see if they have a history of the behaviour, check the context, get the story from both sides, and act accordingly. Such as if all parties believe it to be an accident, leave the situation alone, or if intent was truly malicious, ask the higher admins to figure out what length of ban would be appropriate.


2. The ship has a breach to space and a bunch of players have died or are dying as a result.
If the problem was a result of some random glitch or griefer then ahelp all those involved and find the perpetrator and apply a swift ban, after healing all those involved.


3. You see a player walking around the ship naked and clearly lost.
Bwoink him to see if he needs any help... I remember my early days haha, if they do then refer a mentor to him.


4. A player is being very rude to you in Adminhelps and requesting to speak to an Admin+ staff member.
Politely tell him that Admin+ staff members handle situations that require their privileges and authority. Try to help him solve his problem anyways, and if they continue to be problematic, tell him to have a nice day.


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.
Politely let them know that they would not be severely punished for this. Let them know that they still have to change their name, and ask them to do it by the start of the next round, Apply a minor note regarding the situation.


6. You see a Maintenance Tech running around in armor and carrying a rifle. The security level is green with no threat present.
Let him know that he shouldn't be doing it (so he is aware), but that its also an IC issue and the only punishment will be from the MP's.


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


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?
Make an announcement from the high queen that they should push for glory. (happened to me as an elder runner, worked out nicely, got a ton of laughs for juking 10 marines at once.)


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.
This is an IC issue, EORG covers friendly fire.


10. A marine is running around disarming, punching and stealing gear at round start.
If his notes are clean on this subject, apply a note and tell him to immediately cease his actions. If he has a history of this, ban.


11. A marine has killed another marine. When you ask him why, he said it was because the other marine had punched him.
Again, check his notes, and accordingly apply a ban or a note based on his history for improper escalation.


12. An issue arises that requires Admin+ abilities.
Refer the issue to an admin+ via discord and/or slack


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.
Ask the person making racist comments to tone it down. IC issue.


14. A marine opens fire at round start in briefing killing multiple marines and instantly logs off.
Check notes to see if they have a history of it, perma ban if so. If not, week ban.


15. You see a player playing a xeno larva/chestburster run towards the frontlines and die.
Check to see if the larva was running towards the queen, check his notes, if he has a history of this and was not running towards the queen then apply a job ban, if he doesnt and wasnt chasing the queen, then give a warning, if he was chasing the queen, let the issue go. It's not unreasonable to expect a larva to bolt for its mommy.


16. You see a xeno memeing, saying AYYLMAO, REEEEEE etc in hivemind chat.
Bwoink them to reduce/stop the Low RP, apply a note/warning in accordance with their note history.


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".
Tell the player that is ahelping that the Xenos communicate as a hivemind, and for the purposes of the game, is translated into english.


18. A Command staff player at briefing near round-start mentions there are aliens on the planet.
If there isnt an event that allows this, check note history and warn him/ jobban / note him accordingly.


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.
This is an understandable situation judging the fact that their ship was boarded and they would have had to see countless die, stressing them out immensely, IC issue.


20. You see a fellow staff member give wrong information in an Adminhelp or incorrectly enforcing a rule.
Personally I would ask a staff member that's higher than both of our ranks to handle this, so feelings arn't hurt through disrespect (this is how I was trained as staff in other groups).

20a. You see a fellow staff member abusing his powers in-game.
Again, for the previous reason, ask a higher up to handle it. Unless the situation is immediate and the staff members arnt online, still notify them about it, but ask the fellow staff member to cease, I personally would not take further action. Possibly make a post on the forums about it with evidence. (as I was trained to do with other groups).


21. You see a player talking in OOC chat about what he did with your mom last night.
Ignore them completely, unless its 18+.


Any additional information you'd like to add?

[ThesoldierLLJK]

So I’ve reviewed your answers, and just a few questions.

Are you unable to appeal your paradise ban, or have you chosen not too.

As far as your answers go, I’ll just point some things out.

1. You do not need admin permission to issue a ban or what time it is. We have a standard escalation system we follow and you have the authority to issue timed bans based on that.

7. Why is it a trick question?

20. We’re human and make mistakes nothing wrong with talking to the person In private and saying “hey you gave out wrong info.” Or even telling them in msay

20a. If it’s blantant abuse, report it to the respective manager right away.


Now onto some extra questions with some scenarios for you, but first.


1. Why do you wish to be a moderator


2. A player ahelps saying “hey I turned off IFF and blasted a guy who was stabbing me.” The other player has not ahelped, how would you handle this?

3. A player spams ahelp with various requests such as “admins pls do event” “admins can we have a midi” “admins pls spawn the tank” How would you respond?

4. Two moderators are in msay discussing a unpopular player. They refer to him as a retard, moron, and one mod says he would ban him no questions asked if the player were to be caught breaking a rule. What would you do?

[Ghostdex]

You already failed the application, read over it and see what you did wrong.

Mistake fixed.

[Destonyx]

1. I just supposed I'd be a trail moderator at first, so I'd ask to get more comfortable with it and to make sure I don't do anything wrong, but you're right.

7. Squad medics can't do surgery, as in they are prevented through the code of the game to do so.

20. I will keep that in mind. I just like to be polite and that's how I was told to do things in the past, new community new guidelines, I'm cool with that!

1. I figure I have a good personality and know right from wrong, and I've always been greeted with nothing but kindness in ahelp, I want to be a role model like those before me, and maintain a fun sense on the server.

2. Check the stories of both parties involved. Check the notes of both involved. Check to see how many times the person was stabbed, if more than once, issue a punishment to the stabber in accordance with his notes. If only once and there was some time between damage logs indicating the stabber moving away from the gunner, issue a punishment to the gunner in accordance with his notes, but most likely a warning. if the gunner was stabbed once and he responded with multiple bursts, punish in accordance with notes, either a note or a ban.

3. I'd respond most likely with something like this - "Events are a thing admins do as a random thing, asking for them will not make them happen sooner, if you want to play an event play more! It'll happen eventually and I'm glad you are enjoying the game!" I might consider it and bring it up with the other admins to see how they are feeling, maybe ask them if we should put it up to a vote, but I personally wouldn't if I was the only one on, since it can complicate things log-wise and I'd be new.

4. Urge them to not use such profane slander, and not to punish them in relation to their personal feelings to the player, punish them for what they do, not how you feel they should be punished.

[Destonyx]

Edit: Realized my mistake.
As for the ban, I tried an appeal so I could get back into it a few months later to play with a friend, since then I've lost interest in it.

[Ghostdex]

Soldier pretty much covered the questions. I have a few questions of my own that I'd like answered though.

1. You improperly ban someone and a fellow tmod messages you in private about it, how do you proceed?

2. A player ahelps that a lurker went against the queens orders and killed the last human alive that they were RPing with, what do you do?

3. You spot a MP running around tazing people and taking their gear, when you PM them they tell you to fuck off, how do you deal with this?

[Destonyx]

1. Have a chat with him and try to use reason to see whether or not I was in the wrong. If so, ask a higher-up about it even though I know I'm wrong because I don't think I can just un-ban someone. Whatever the case, I'm quick to realize my mistakes and I'm not hesitant to report it to someone who can handle it further. There's nothing worse than the feeling of being un-justly banned.

2. First of all I'd consider if it was round delay or not, since causing a round to last forever causes people to leave, I think five minutes is acceptable for the last human's rp as I've seen it before and it can actually turn out quite nicely. Message the Queen to see what she thinks, if it was truly against her orders, check the note history of the person that went against orders, if they have a history of this, a minor note would be applied since the person in-question has shown history of ruining peoples fun in that way, I may ask a higher-up for guidance on this one as I am honestly not sure of the severity of punishment that would be appropriate for this. If they don't have a history, I would warn him to be more cautious of their queen's orders in the future.

3. If they had no history of this, I'd make a note of it but tell him to cease, if he continued, I'd ban for 12 hours since it can be very disruptive depending on the people he is tasing (the commander for example). If they had a history for it, I'd make a note and ban him with the duration depending on the severity of the disruption to the game and file for a perma-ban request if it was very disruptive and they had a long, long history of it.

[Ghostdex]

1. Have a chat with him and try to use reason to see whether or not I was in the wrong. If so, ask a higher-up about it even though I know I'm wrong because I don't think I can just un-ban someone. Whatever the case, I'm quick to realize my mistakes and I'm not hesitant to report it to someone who can handle it further. There's nothing worse than the feeling of being un-justly banned.

2. First of all I'd consider if it was round delay or not, since causing a round to last forever causes people to leave, I think five minutes is acceptable for the last human's rp as I've seen it before and it can actually turn out quite nicely. Message the Queen to see what she thinks, if it was truly against her orders, check the note history of the person that went against orders, if they have a history of this, a minor note would be applied since the person in-question has shown history of ruining peoples fun in that way, I may ask a higher-up for guidance on this one as I am honestly not sure of the severity of punishment that would be appropriate for this. If they don't have a history, I would warn him to be more cautious of their queen's orders in the future.

3. If they had no history of this, I'd make a note of it but tell him to cease, if he continued, I'd ban for 12 hours since it can be very disruptive depending on the people he is tasing (the commander for example). If they had a history for it, I'd make a note and ban him with the duration depending on the severity of the disruption to the game and file for a perma-ban request if it was very disruptive and they had a long, long history of it.

1. Good answer for this, senior mods are around to help any mod who needs help if needed.

2. The best tool you have at your disposal as a mod is your discretion, usually at the end of a round there's a lot of ghosts waiting for a new round, you have to think about who matters more 3 people RPing, or 70 players waiting.

3. Ban times go from 3 hours to 24 hours then 3 days and finally 7 days, we don't have a standard 12 hour ban so decide if its 3 hours or 24 hours.

[TheDonkified]

+1. Your answers to the questions posed to you show that you have a decent understanding of how to proceed with a given situation and how it should be handled. Some of the minor procedural issues brought up can easily be handled once you get experience as a trial moderator and look to more experienced staff members for some guidance.

[ThesoldierLLJK]

2. Check the stories of both parties involved. Check the notes of both involved. Check to see how many times the person was stabbed, if more than once, issue a punishment to the stabber in accordance with his notes. If only once and there was some time between damage logs indicating the stabber moving away from the gunner, issue a punishment to the gunner in accordance with his notes, but most likely a warning. if the gunner was stabbed once and he responded with multiple bursts, punish in accordance with notes, either a note or a ban.

3. I'd respond most likely with something like this - "Events are a thing admins do as a random thing, asking for them will not make them happen sooner, if you want to play an event play more! It'll happen eventually and I'm glad you are enjoying the game!" I might consider it and bring it up with the other admins to see how they are feeling, maybe ask them if we should put it up to a vote, but I personally wouldn't if I was the only one on, since it can complicate things log-wise and I'd be new.

4. Urge them to not use such profane slander, and not to punish them in relation to their personal feelings to the player, punish them for what they do, not how you feel they should be punished.

Pretty good answers, although with number 3 if they're spamming and being annoying you can always mute them. Yes you can ask admins, and depending who the admin is (Grimcad) they may do something next round


Overall I see you have low forum activity, but that's not a major concern

+1

[Sargash]

This is probably the first mod app I've genuinely been impressed with. I don't have any questions, and I would very much like to see you on the team.
+1

[Slywater]

I won't pester you with extra questions. Everything seems fine, so here's my +1.

[Mizari]

Yeah sure, I'll give you a shot as a trial +1 from me.

[Imperator_Titan]

Accepted.

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