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Are You Trusted? Putting in a Mod Application? Read This!

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Wratkie:

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--- Quote from: mini25252525 on May 25, 2012, 09:25:39 pm ---Mod lounge????  ;D

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...It's not some elite Mod club or anything.  Heck, it's rare to even see a mod in it.  *LOL*

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Or so your forced to tell them...
I've seen some pretty wild things take place inside, above, and around the Mod lounge. All of which is incredibly highly classified. I've probably said to much as is.

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You did, now we have to kill everyone who reads this topic.

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yup! :D

But yes as an Operator, who started as a guest just like you did, the change from trusted to moderator is nothing as it was from member to trusted. Before I was a Mod i had a mining team, projects goals and time to spend the way i wanted to spend it. As i was promoted all of that stopped, moderator isn't just the next rank up. Its a voluntary responsibility. If you can't handle it, it'll be taken away, or you can ask for it to be taken away if its not what you thought it would be like. Remember when your first promoted you are on trial, this is the most crucial time to prove your worthy of the rank, when your accepted you start helping out new mods figure things out and start handling bigger issues, but just because your accepted doesnt mean your outta the clear. It only means youve shown us your a good mod thats dedicated to what they are doing. Im not trying to make moderating sound like its not fun, because its all a matter of opinion. I personally, and i know my friends in the staff, love doing what we do. Especially if you have been around for awhile and have seen the whole community change over and over. Thats why you should make sure you are 100% positive you'd like to be a mod because it could be a nice long ride if your ready and can handle all we do.

Hope my views of the matter help you trusted players decide wether or not moderating is right for you.

Chief149:
I'll add in my two cents I guess as well:

So for the past couple years I have been hosting game servers for Halo and Half Life 2, while at the same time being root admin on a couple other people's forums and servers. The worst part is people contact me both in-game and out of the game. People have complained to me, said bad stuff to me, and much more. You have to stay within the boundries of the rules, and it's not always fun, and on Half Life 2 RP servers it's sometimes hard to not admin abuse when you can smite, rocketeer, ****slap, slap, NULL gun, evilpimpslap, or plainly teleport a person to a funny spot (I didn't do that to players that didn't want me to, but there were times when players were all joking around with me and nobody cared about being in the serious roleplay mode so that's when admins like myself would mess with the players, and as soon as someone yelled STOP then we'd stop right there and then).

So yeah it's a lot of fun, but it takes a lot of time, and you don't often get to do anything you wanna do at all. Plus it can be hard when a good friend of yours breaks the rules and you have to ban them (You can't ever let friends not be banned because they are your friends. That sets a terrible example for the other players telling them that they won't get banned for breaking the rules).

Also some mods do become very popular. Others not so much, but I have always found the moderators and admins who are not as popular to have better control over things, and to have better skills at keeping the server from going completely mad.

Anyways like the OP said, if you have extra time on your hands, and you like to be somewhat in control of the server back-end (control to undo griefing, bans, kicks, etc), and you are someone who won't abuse powers and cause drama, AND most importantly can handle constant player complaints and help requests and drama, then being a admin or moderator is something for you to do.

Personally I doubt I would be considered to have enough time on my hands, and idk if I am done being a admin on gameservers now or not. Maybe in the future if I start to have that desire to help out the server backend then I might apply to be a moderator, but for me I had a lot of fun on other game servers, and on my own servers, but I'm most likely ready to be the player for once, and do other things like coding C#, Java, C++, VB, or learning assembly(oh god no O.o)

butterflywolves:
I recently got trusted and I keep saying "woo u can put in a mod app"
But then I pull myself back to reality and say "shut up butter
Wait a few months" so I want to know when is the best time time
to put in an app? I know I feel kinda stupid, I've already started planning
my app out and I've been trusted for 2 days!!

butterflywolves:
Your going have to help me! But I kinda want my friends to support me...
Wait when u put in a app did u get the promotion?

Pensfan121:

--- Quote from: butterflywolves on December 31, 2012, 11:11:32 pm ---Your going have to help me! But I kinda want my friends to support me...
Wait when u put in a app did u get the promotion?

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Only if the admins accept your application. Also note that you can only apply when applications are open. As stated by the status of the topic.

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