FluffyGhost Mod interview

What is your Ckey?

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:21 PM
fluffyghost

Mini Moose — Today at 6:21 PM
Do you know how this will work?

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:22 PM
uhm it's an interview/test, i suppose not too dissimilar from the AI one

Mini Moose — Today at 6:22 PM
I will provide you with a few scenarios, then ask you a couple of questions. Each scenario will be different. They will test some sort of attribute. Answer honestly and try to put yourself in the position of a moderator. There are no wrong answers.

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:23 PM
alrighto

Mini Moose — Today at 6:23 PM
As a moderator, here are the following perms you have:

- Access to msay. It allows you to speak with other staff members.
- Access to dsay. Self-explanatory, you see the deadchat and can even speak in it.
- Access to in game logs about a lot of things. This include LOOC, dchat, admin actions(like kick, ban, note, warn) and some things to prevent grief. Imagine Urist McUrist open a phoron tank you'll have a message stating it. Same for a fuel tank or a valve of any kind.
- Access the variables of the objects on the server. While you cannot edit them, you can view attack logs on a player, who touched what the last, etc.
- The ability to adminghost, basically will consider you as if you ghosted from the lobby or died. You can aghost again to re-enter your body.
- The ability to Wind people. It freeze them and keep them from interacting with the game.
- The possibility to AdminPM someone, and check all the tickets that have been made on the server.
- The ability to kick, note, warn, ban. More in-depth about this:
Kick = Just boot someone off the server. You can set a custom message. It's not really used often, but still useful to get someone's attention.
Note = It's basically our notepad about players. It's useful for the other staff that will interact with the player, to know their behaviour and if something already happened before.
Warning = Depending the severity of something, it can be directly a warning. This one is visible to the player, and they need to acknowledge it to play on the server again.
Ban = Same thing as kick expect on a larger scale, or even permanently. A ban is often an escalation of warnings.
Every action taken by a staff member is visible on the player's ckey. Only kicks are not shown.
You can ask me about these at any point.

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:25 PM
👍

Mini Moose — Today at 6:25 PM
Ready to begin?

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:25 PM
yes! bring 'em on 😛

Mini Moose — Today at 6:27 PM
You're online and it's just you. No other staff are present. The population is decent, it's about forty players on a Friday night. The round type is auto-traitor. There are a few new players on but otherwise nothing crazy is really happening.
With that said,
twenty minutes into the round you receive an ahelp - "Hey uh, why is Jim Kennedy like, shooting me?" Your attack logs begin to fill up with "Jim Kennedy" shoots "Stephanie Black" with projectile/medium/yaddayadda - How do you proceed?

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:29 PM
i would aghost, and move to the location to gain a better view of what is happening, while trying to discern if Jim Kennedy is an antag

Mini Moose — Today at 6:30 PM
Jim Kennedy is indeed an antag, his name is Yellow in the attack logs. He is one of three traitors this round.

You see him holding an Assault Rifle, he is magdumping into this womans head, until it flies off. The alert is green and there is no Security or any threat in the area.

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:31 PM
seems too much of an escalation, do i have the aooc logs? what is the gimmick?

Mini Moose — Today at 6:31 PM
You do have access to AOOC. There is no discussed gimmick. From the logs in your  chat, all you can see is that they just started to unload into them.
However while you're observing this, they begin to run off - into the Library, they were in the garden when this happened. There is a sleeping passenger in a chair. The logs light up again as Jim unloads into the passenger.

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:33 PM
i would admin pm them, asking to please stop shooting and explain what is going on with such an early escalation, missing any chance of RP completely (possibly even avoiding it)

Mini Moose — Today at 6:33 PM
They do not reply, and move into medical where they shoot up a paramedic.

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:34 PM
i would wind them, do i have aheal?
Mini Moose — Today at 6:34 PM
You do not have aheal. They're winded.

"Hey, what gives?"

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:36 PM
"hey, i'm sorry, I PMed you as you have escalated what looks like unreasonably fast, but you did not reply and proceeded to continue shooting instead, what is going on?" - i would check the account age, previous warnings, notes, if they talked with the other antags and what they said to each other

Mini Moose — Today at 6:36 PM
Account age is 10 days. In these ten days they have accrued six notes, four about minor things and two major.
1. Noted for job hopping
2. Noted for running around barefoot while working and refusing to follow the ic directions
3. IC in OOC but said it was an accident
4. Failure to answer a ticket while walking outside of the ship in security armory instead of a voidsuit
5. Warning delivered for; calling a character a 'fat chode' after they lost a gunfight to them. They came back as a maintenance drone and tried to kill the antagonist.
6. Warning delivered for running up to the Captain as an antagonist and pointblanking her in the head.

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:38 PM
do they reply to me?

Mini Moose — Today at 6:39 PM
After a few moments, they reply. "Hey, in the middle of doing my gimmick, can you unparalyze me pls???"

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:40 PM
"given your recent account age and previous history on this subject, i am afraid not, have you read our rules?"

Mini Moose — Today at 6:41 PM
"Yeah, I skimmed the rules lol. Why are you oppressing me?"

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:44 PM
"it is not my intention to oppress you, however we have a set of rules that it seems you did not read, while i am still assuming good intentions, given your history on the matter, I would apply a ban that you can appeal on the forum once you have read, not skimmed, the rules - please note this is to ensure the quality of the server and to force communication about your present and past behaviour, the forum is reachable at [link] once you have read and understood the rules and are ready to appeal this"

Mini Moose — Today at 6:44 PM
He logs out after that

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:47 PM
apply the ban, "by 00.20 headgibbed one person, shot another and proceeded to try to shoot medbay, young account age, multiple warnings two of which are related with unwelcome behaviour on an OOC level, including ignoring admin PMs, appeal this on the forum when you are ready to communicate about your behaviour"

Mini Moose — Today at 6:48 PM
Excellent. Next up?

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:48 PM
yes!

Mini Moose — Today at 6:48 PM
You complete your trial, you've made it, you're a moderator. Your best friend, Tim, congratulates you - then an hour later someone ahelps them for abusing a bug. They're duplicating AR ammunition as a merc. What do you do here?

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:48 PM
it is Tim, isn't it?

Mini Moose — Today at 6:49 PM
Yes
Jim, now Tim

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:49 PM
admin PM, "hey Tim, got a minute to talk?"

Mini Moose — Today at 6:55 PM
It is important to add that he is willingly abusing this bug.

FluffyGhost — Today at 6:56 PM
yes, i know that from his answer
"i'm sorry Tim, that doesn't fly, even if you are the only antag, you are still exploiting a bug, your role as antag is to drive a story, not wipe the entire security team and some more" - is anyone available on discord?
aka, any staff

Mini Moose — Today at 6:59 PM
You can get ahold of me on discord

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:01 PM
"hey read, user X did [insert story here], there are no related warning or major events about him, however he is still exploiting a bug, knowingly, given the lack of warnings otherwise related, do you believe a warning to be sufficient?"

Mini Moose — Today at 7:03 PM
"Your call" is all I'd reply.

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:04 PM
did he reply?
Mini Moose — Today at 7:04 PM
"Man, we're friends! Cmon!" is all he'd reply

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:05 PM
account age? I assumed it would be long, since you said Tim is a friend, so someone who was in the community for a significant amount of time, but i'm verifying

Mini Moose — Today at 7:05 PM
Like, let's say two years. 700+ days
You met them day one

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:07 PM
is there any way to verify if that is indeed Tim? someone with otherwise no note for such a length of time, I would start to suspect the account was compromised

Mini Moose — Today at 7:07 PM
The accounts IP is the same as Tims, it's never changed.

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:09 PM
where is he? centcomm?

Mini Moose — Today at 7:09 PM
No, he's waiting to go kill Security officers in the holodeck because you have him talking in the ticket

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:10 PM
do i have any way to remove those ammos?

Mini Moose — Today at 7:11 PM
I'd get online and delete them since you asked for a second opinion

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:12 PM
"Tim, i am not sure what made you think that would fly, but it does not, we will delete your ammos and place a warning about this behaviour, which is in no way acceptable, please note that if you repeat it, or anything similar to it, it will become a ban"

Mini Moose — Today at 7:13 PM
Alright, anything else to add there?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:14 PM
i would keep watching him, by how it sounds it seems like he was drunk or something, it would be definitely odd for someone in good standing to do something like it out of nowhere
700+ days with nothing related, and out of nowhere he starts doing this, would be very odd behaviour

Mini Moose — Today at 7:16 PM
That's a fair concern. Or maybe he's just never been caught :PI_shrugowo:

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:16 PM
i would also verify later if anything like this happened in other rounds, as a review, if i have access to other rounds logs

Mini Moose — Today at 7:16 PM
Alright, next?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:18 PM
yep! i was a bit uncertain, but assuming he comes back to his senses, and the good standing with the community (please note that it is irrelevant in my evaluation that he is a friend, i only evaluated his standing with the community), a warning and a review of previous rounds should be sufficient, without turning it into glorified extended

Mini Moose — Today at 7:18 PM
No worries.
You're an antagonist and you end up killing a player by cutting their head off with a fire-axe because they wouldn't comply with you. They open a ticket about you soon after, what do you do?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:18 PM
i would keep an eye on him, write the warning, and if i have access to start digging in the past logs
(that was a continuation of the above message)
a ticket about? what does it say?

Mini Moose — Today at 7:19 PM
"Hey, they killed me without any escalation!!"

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:19 PM
is there anyone else online, of the staff?

Mini Moose — Today at 7:20 PM
Yes, just another mod

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:20 PM
i would ask him to take the ticket, if possible

Mini Moose — Today at 7:21 PM
They take the ticket. Good, next scenario.
A man by the name of Boe Jiden joins the game. 0 day age account, no legs and one arm, he's in a wheel chair. Character is 70. What rules is he breaking? How do you approach this?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:22 PM
i would admin PM him, "hey, got a minute to talk?"

Mini Moose — Today at 7:23 PM
What rules is he breaking?

He replies "Yeah wassup?"

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:25 PM
character believability, immersion-breaking, no famous people reference in names

"hello, did you read our rules?"

Mini Moose — Today at 7:26 PM
"Nope, but im like, a ss13 pro. I don't need da rulez"

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:28 PM
"i am afraid you do, we are an HRP server, and it seems you are attempting to play a clearly meme character, we do not allow such thing as it immersion breaking, is not believable, and is clearly a reference to a famous person, all of those are against our rules and spirit of an HRP" (this is why i didn't answer the rules part immediately, i thought to just answer that as i would to him, fyi)

Mini Moose — Today at 7:28 PM
"Oh okay, I'll cryo out and fix it up. Thanks for like, being so kind and clearing it up with me!"

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:30 PM
"no problem, here [link] is the rules, please, do make sure to read them - also, here [link] is the character creation guide, you can use it to create your first character and acquire the lore knowledge for it to be believable" i observe if he cryos

Mini Moose — Today at 7:31 PM
He cryo's and it's good to go
Next up

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:31 PM
i add a note, "first joined with a meme character, spoken to, gave rules and starter guide"

Mini Moose — Today at 7:31 PM
excellent
next up
You are arguing with a person in OOC. You're heated, they're insulting your medical play and your ability to perform medicine icly. They insult you, calling you a "donger" and several other palce holder insults. What do you do? There are staff online but they're mostly afk or in game.

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:33 PM
i have to think a moment about it, it would be uncharacteristic for me to heat up, mmh...
i would probably simply stop responding and let the others know about the "donger" part

Mini Moose — Today at 7:34 PM
Let's just say for the sake of the scenario, you're pretty heated.
Others as in the staff?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:34 PM
yes, in adminooc

Mini Moose — Today at 7:34 PM
Msay
But alright
Anything else to add there?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:35 PM
i am not sure what a donger is, nor what i did say, you said i was pretty heated, but what did I say? did i namecall him too? insulted him?
how did i "argue" in this scenario?
also, did anyone in msay respond?

Mini Moose — Today at 7:37 PM
It doesn't really matter, the scenario was to see if you'd bwoink someone after being angrily involved with them or not
But if you'd like to explore it, we can

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:38 PM
i would think it does, if i insulted him out of anger, i'd apologize

Mini Moose — Today at 7:38 PM
Well hopefully you won't insult people if you're angry because that's unbecoming of a moderator/staff member.

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:38 PM
that's correct, and it's also out of my character, even to get angry
but you're talking about an hypotethical scenario

Mini Moose — Today at 7:38 PM
We can start on some questions now

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:39 PM
sure!

Mini Moose — Today at 7:41 PM
So some staff members have brought up a concern. This is not an attack on you, but merely something we want to get a pov from. You've been observed getting a bit defensive in public during certain conversations. I do not have a link to any logs, but, you standby the fact that this isn't in your character as a person and you will do your best to avoid these kinds of incidents?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:41 PM
you are talking about, ingame?

Mini Moose — Today at 7:42 PM
No, out of game
like discords and such
Let me rephrase the question
Do you think you take criticism well?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:44 PM
i believe so, well-argumented criticism are always welcome

Mini Moose — Today at 7:45 PM
Alright. In the event that you are receiving the opposite of well-argumented criticism, will you be able to handle it well? Or do you feel like there may be an issue with how it is received?
I do not do well with insults/negative criticism, personally.

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:46 PM
i would inquire about the core of the argument and discuss its merit to see if it is a good criticism at it's core or not

Mini Moose — Today at 7:47 PM
And if it isn't good criticism?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:47 PM
if it's not good criticism, i would point that out

Mini Moose — Today at 7:47 PM
Alright.

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:48 PM
i do believe that arriving at the truth is, in the long term, the most beneficial option

Mini Moose — Today at 7:48 PM
Do you feel that you will be able to remain as transparent as possible? Will you be able to keep any personal bias out of official judgement, regarding political affiliation, sexual orientations, gender and race?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:49 PM
yes, official judgments are only based on our rules and spirit of them
as a science-liker, i am well aware that nor me, nor anyone, not even AIs, can completely eliminate any possible bias, but i do use all the available tools i know to mitigate any as such

Mini Moose — Today at 7:52 PM
Do you feel that there are special precautions needed to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our members who may be at risk of online harassment?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:53 PM
can you rephrase it? i don't understand the question

Mini Moose — Today at 7:53 PM
Do you think that special precautions are necessary to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our members who may be at a higher risk of online harassment? Women, members of LGBTQIA+, etc.

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:57 PM
that is a complex question to answer fully, but generally i do not believe so on a policy-making level, i believe there should be rules that are to be applied to everyone equally, while one might be, so to say, used more often in defense of particular groups, they are not to be specially created to only apply to particular groups, but rather to protect everyone

as an example, a rule that says "do not harrass [group]" would be discriminatory, the more beneficial one (while also not being discriminatory) would be, simply, "do not harrass anyone"

Mini Moose — Today at 7:58 PM
Alright
If there was one thing you could change about the server, what would it be?

FluffyGhost — Today at 7:59 PM
one thing? mmh... i think i would add more variety of things that can be done, kind of already working on it

Mini Moose — Today at 7:59 PM
Alrighty
I have nothing else to add. I'm going to wrap this here
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