Fami's Trial Moderator Application

[Fami]

a1) What is your in-game (RP) name?

Fami

a2) Provide a link to your Steam profile.

https://steamcommunity.com/id/imj

a3) What is your Discord Tag? (ie: SomeUser#1234)

autumn#2067

a4) What timezone are you located in?

EST

a5) How many in-game warns do you have?

I have around 70 or so, all within 2020-2021.

a6) Have you ever been banned? If so, explain why?

I've been temp-banned from the server multiple times and perma-banned once across 2020-2021. The reasons for each ban vary, but most of them are for NITRP or RDM. I was being a moron during that time and it's something I still look down upon due to how idiotic I was acting and how much of an asshole I was to other people.

a7) Do you have any prior staffing experience? If so, where?

I've been staff on a couple of GMod servers, moderated for various servers on other games and have co-owned and handled moderation for both a 7k and a 50k member Discord server.

Please answer these questions with your honest opinion.
b1) Why do you want to volunteer for XenoRP?

I'm very passionate about Xeno. This server (up until it going down) was the only DarkRP server I actively played, and the only one I actively participated in the community of. I enjoy Xeno and its community, and I'd hate to see it die again like what happened to it before it went down. I think inactivity in terms of moderation played a fairly small role in its death, and I don't want that to happen to Xeno for a second time. I want people to be able to enjoy Xeno and have them stay, and in turn make the community a lot better. I also kind of feel like I owe the help to the moderation team and Xeno itself due to my sort-of rough history with some people.

b2) If you were to get accepted, what do you think would make you a good moderator?

I think my personal strengths are my experience as a moderator for other servers, my activity on Xeno as a whole and my ability to be able to see both sides of an argument, as well as to be fair to both sides. I think my prior experience doing moderation for other GMod servers and other places in general would help me a lot as a moderator on Xeno, as I know what to do and what not to do, how to handle myself and how to act, and how to deal with people accordingly. In addition, I'm very active on Xeno, usually playing on it most days, which allows me to deal with rulebreakers easier and quicker without getting worn out or bored of being on the server. I think this is a good strength, as I want people to be able to have fun on Xeno without having to deal with constant rulebreakers and minges if no moderators are online or able to handle their ticket at that specific time. I also think a good trait of mine is that I'm able to understand both sides of an argument and treat users fairly during said argument. I've had to deal with the experience before of having someone being biased towards the other person in an argument due to things such as their position and their association to the other person, and I don't want to make people who play on Xeno think that they're completely unable to report rulebreaking behaviour due to any sort of bias towards the person they want to report. I try my best to be as fair as I possibly can in situations like that, and I try my best to be as kind as I can to the people I speak to.

Please provide descriptive answers for the following questions:

c1) Define RDM/RDA and describe how players who perform those actions should be punished.

RDM stands for Random Deathmatch, and it is the act of killing another player on the server without any sort of roleplay intention or any valid reason. RDA stands for Random Arrest, and it's sort-of similar to Random Deathmatch, being the act of arresting another player on the server without any sort of intention or reason. I would handle both on a case-by-case basis, being that I would decide a punishment depending on the context of the situation, the past history of the players involved and depending on if the victim involved wants the person in question punished for their actions. I tend to verbally warn people before I choose to warn them if they have a clean history on the server, and depending on how many active warns they have for the same offence, ban them accordingly.

c2) Explain "NLR" and provide examples of instances in which it is violated.

NLR stands for "New Life Rule", being that you cannot enter an area that you have previously died in until 2 minutes have passed. NLR for raids is slightly different, being that once you are killed in any type of raid, you cannot return to the area in question until that raid has ended. Examples would be that members of the Police Department cannot return to the PD after being killed during a PD raid until the raid has ended, and the owner of a base cannot return to their base after being killed during a raid until it has ended.

c3) Define "metagame" and provide examples of its occurrence.

Metagaming is the act of using information that is not available or cannot be obtained in roleplay to help themselves in-game during roleplay. Examples would be using the in-game chat and/or voice chat to see if a specific player happens to be near you, using information sent in OOC to your advantage in roleplay, and using the sound of something such as money printers or bitcoin miners inside of someone's base to arrest/put a warrant on them.

Please explain how you would handle each of these situations:
d1) You see a higher up is abusing their powers to the highest severity, how do you react?

I would gather as much evidence as I can and send it to someone above their position who can deal with them.

d2) During a sit, you see someone outside of the sit Mass RDMing. How do you handle the situation?

If no moderators were active or online to handle the person that was mass RDMing, I would jail them and deal with them after I'm finished the sit.

d3) Only two other players are online, and they're building in the streets.

I would tell them that they would need to be hobos and that they can't build on the streets. I would also inform them that they would need to move their props away from the streets, and I would punish them and remove their props if they do not cooperate.

[God Emperor Jeremy VI]

Neutral

+Positive interactions in game

+No recent rule breaking

-Not enough recent positive interactions

-History of bans and warns in the past prior to the server shutting down

 

Overall, I will need to have more interactions with you over the next week or two to get a better understanding of your intentions and how you will fit into the Xeno staff team and its community.

[Kil]

Suspended

Please remain active in game and we will come back to your app in a week.