Moderator Application - Marrone
What is your BYOND key?
Marrone
What is your Discord username?
_marrone
What characters do you play on CM-SS13?
Teddy Hansen, Pakpao Nakprasette, Chastity Banks, Boonsri Ratnaphan
Are you 16 or older?
Yes
Timezone:
EST
On average, how many hours are you available to moderate in an average week?
10-15
Qualifications:
Do you have previous experience in game or community moderation?
Yes
Provide any links to any previous CM-SS13 whitelist, mentor or staff applications:
None
Have you ever been banned for more than 24 hours on CM-SS13?
No I’ve only been discord banned for clicking a phishing link while I was extremely high and was autobanned.
Can you actively engage and communicate with the team through Discord?
Yes
Final Details:
Why would you like to join the CM-SS13 staff team?
Grim asked me to.
Ever since I was little I would hide under my blankets and pretend to be a space marine from Starship Troopers. I eventually played the RTS Alien vs Predator game on PS2 and from then on I was always on the hunt for an experience like that but more thorough and detailed. Eventually I landed on SS13 and CM was one of the first servers I played back in 2019. It was everything I ever wanted and more, and after playing here for a few years I’ve decided to put in this app so I could help manage tickets and keep the server going strong round to round.
What makes you a great addition to Staff? (Experienced Tabletop DM, Aliens Lore Buff, Super Organized, etc.?)
I was staff on several other SS13 servers particularly in leadership and was in charge of maintaining the high roleplay rules, managing staff and making sure they understand their assignment, developing policies to help keep things in line, and most importantly leading by example.
I do not have a sense of wanting to control CM, I like how the current staff run it, I just want to help out. If you guys want me to revise or give my opinion on something like rules or policies, that’s fine, but I’m looking more to alleviate ticket load so senior staff can focus on more important things.
I am a master de-escalater, I don’t lose my cool OOCly over videogame, I don’t have a bias to either marine or xeno even though I main marine. I’m someone who very carefully considers other options before punitive actions, and pays close attention to ckeys to see if they’re innocent players who mess up or a consistent problem player who is looking for loopholes to game the system. It’s honestly second nature for me to, as staff, engage with the community and listen so I can understand so it informs my decisions as a moderator.
I don’t care about power. If I make a decision and a senior admin wants to do something different, we are doing something different. It’s never about what I want and I like that because I’m not here to make CM conform to me and my expectations.
- Desert Rose 2 - headmin for about 2-3 years on and off
- STALKER 13 - Host for about a year or so
- Foundation 13 - Headmin for a few months (I hate SCP but my homie Lestat asked me and I set up all their initial policies, rules, admin discord channels)
- Skyrat - Trial mod for a few months, just wasn’t for me and had real life at the time take over
- Coyote Bayou - Unofficial Devmin (I was a developer who convinced them to give me admin at the time and I helped them get their stuff together initially)
- Headmin for 1-2 failed SS13 server projects such as an alternative Sojourn server.
This is the typical thing I send people to show them my admin/staff skills:
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Assisting in the creation of announcements, memos, guidelines, and training material for whatever is necessary. Reviewing and helping revise any written material that you or your team develops to help ensure the quality of said material is solid and ready to be delivered publically.
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Acquisition and orientation of talent, whether they are staff, developers, patreon, or contributors of any kind. This includes training them on conflict management, how to use admin tools, how to talk to players without talking ‘down’ to them, how to teach new contributors how to effectively and assertively communicate without talking over eachother, etc
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Designating tasks and compartmentalizing seemingly impossible tasks into realistic chunks so that success is possible. Motivating and helping developers see the light when they feel they are in a rut, and connecting them with the right resources in order to make their jobs possible, so we work together not against eachother.
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Sitting down and talking to individuals 1 on 1 to resolve issues, whether they be staff members, developers, contributors, players, and brainstorming out-of-the-box solutions that truly resolve the circumstance.
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Motivating, recognizing, acknowledging and generally showing specific appreciation for those who contribute to our project, whether through mapping, coding, spriting, moderating, or even just playing
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Assisting in security against individuals who wish to internally disrupt or tear down your server. I am very keenly aware of many ckeys in the community, I am a fly on the wall in many places. I’ve seen a lot, I still see a lot, and that can be very valuable.
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Extinguishing ‘fires’ and ‘blowouts’ in terms of arguments between people, and helping people learn how to effectively communicate their ideas and how they feel about things, retaining contributors despite problems occuring, and developing bridges of communication between players and staff/contributors
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Helping make sure that people who play don’t break immersion, and assisting your team in creating a system so that we can really formally understand when to just talk to someone, and when to do something punitive.
Yep yep please don’t make me do all this (I will if you ask me) I’m just trying to smash tickies.
In your opinion, what is the most important quality of a CM-SS13 staff member?
Keep your cool and defer to senior admins if you dont know what step to take. Chain of command is important, and helps keep the vibe consistent. There is a certain vibe with CM staff that I want to be careful not to tarnish or lead astray. Be mindful of your surroundings and don’t jump the gun with being impulsive. Don’t take things personally, remember it’s just a silly space man game… but be mindful, this is 100+ peoples free time theyre spending on the server. Mistakes will be made and sometimes you gotta take the L and move on, there is always another round.
Anything else you want to add?
CM has always been my player paradise, that is, a place I can always go and JUST be a player. Doing this is a big step. I am doing it because I know I can effectively and Grim asked me to make this app. Thanks for reading!