Butterrobber202 Moderator Interview

FlamingoToday at 12:20 PM
Alright I’ll try and make it go as quickly as possible then. For the record, can you paste your ckey for me?

Butterrobber202Today at 12:20 PM
Butterrobber202

FlamingoToday at 12:22 PM
Cool. The interview is going to be split into two parts. The first will be a series of “scenario” questions. Common situations that may show up on server. The second half will be “personal” questions, pertaining to you and your time on the server.
Let me give you a list of the permissions and powers you have as a moderator.
For the purposes of the interview, you will be a full moderator.

Butterrobber202Today at 12:23 PM
:ok_hand:

FlamingoToday at 12:25 PM
This is not an exhaustive list, but covers most of the commonly used powers and such that you’ll use, and need for this interview.

1. The ability to use adminghost (aghost), which works exactly like the ghost command, but let’s you re-enter your body afterwards. This is mainly used to investigate issues in the round.

2. Access to ingame logs (attack logs, ALL LOOC, ALL deadchat logs, ALL warning and admin logs such as people opening valves or welderbombing).

3. The ability to adminpm (bwoink) people for a chat.

4. The ability to place varying degrees of punishment. Notes are staff only messages on a player’s’ account. Warnings are similar but require the recipient to acknowledge it, and they can see what it was for. Bans are time based (or permanent), and can be from the server or specific jobs. People can see why they were banned. You can also view a record of all players past notes, bans, and warnings.

5. Access to moderator only chat (msay) for communication, as well as access to other chats like AntagOOC and DeadChat (as stated earlier).

6. The ability to WIND players, freezing them from all actions.
You can also kick players with an optional message.
Any questions on the powers or interview process before we begin?

Butterrobber202Today at 12:27 PM
Nope, I’m somewhat familiar with most of them

FlamingoToday at 12:30 PM
Cool. Let’s begin with the first question then.

You’re playing ingame when you see an announcement over the radio: “Johnny Depp, Assistant, has arrived from NTCC Odin”.

What do you do?

Butterrobber202Today at 12:31 PM
Check if the player is new player
If so, just pm him and inform him of the naming rules and get an admin to change his name.

FlamingoToday at 12:32 PM
Their account is 2 days old. He doesn’t seem to respond to your messages.

Butterrobber202Today at 12:33 PM
Wind him, then send him another message, probably something along the lines of “Hey, please respond, do so by clicking on my name.”

FlamingoToday at 12:35 PM
He responds with “Remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!” And then disconnects. What do you do?

Butterrobber202Today at 12:35 PM
Throw him in cryo and tag him with a note.

FlamingoToday at 12:37 PM
Cool. Let’s move on to something a little different.

You are sitting in the lobby setting up a new character, when suddenly, a flood of attack logs fill the chat. Two people are attacking each other. What do you do?

Butterrobber202Today at 12:37 PM
How far are we into the round?

FlamingoToday at 12:41 PM
About 30 minutes.

Butterrobber202Today at 12:41 PM
Cool, I ghost and go check it out, either one of them an antag?

FlamingoToday at 12:43 PM
You pop over to find an engineer and a cargo tech fighting. The engineer is using a lot welder, and the cargo tech has a combat knife.

Neither one of them are antags.

Butterrobber202Today at 12:44 PM
I’m hesitant to instantly break up a fight on the assumption it’s grief, so are these two characters known for hating each other?

FlamingoToday at 12:45 PM
Not to your knowledge. You vaguely recognize their names but not enough to know the characters.

Butterrobber202Today at 12:45 PM
Neat, do either one of them have any notes or warnings?

FlamingoToday at 12:46 PM
They’re both a little on the newer side and have some notes on minor chucklefucking type stuff: jumping down disposals, netspeak, etc.

Butterrobber202Today at 12:47 PM
They beating each other to death/crit?

FlamingoToday at 12:50 PM
Yes.

Butterrobber202Today at 12:50 PM
Any one ahelped it yet?
because if a player with more knowledge on the situation ahelps it would probably comple me to instantly stop it rather than doing the preliminary investigation

FlamingoToday at 12:51 PM
Nope. No one is around at the moment. They’re in the cargo lobby and most people are hidden in their departments like gremlins, though medical has noticed the sensors and is sending someone.

Butterrobber202Today at 12:53 PM
right so, question about the logs, can I check for IC chat? Like say n’ stuff? If so I’m going to do a quick scan for IC buildup
FlamingoToday at 12:55 PM
Unfortunately not, only because you were in the lobby creating your character.

Butterrobber202Today at 12:55 PM
Ah
Again, fighting as non-antags isn’t against the rules, and I’m hesitant to break up the fight assuming it’s proper. But the chances are, since they are doing it do the death, new, and have those notes, I can likely guess that it was foul.
So I windem both and hit them both with a “Why are you fighting X to the death” PM

FlamingoToday at 12:59 PM
The engineer replies first: “this motherfucker wouldn’t give me what i wanted from cargo so I pushed him and he attacked me! I just fought back”

The cargo tech says: “the engineer pushed me down and I thought he was gonna hurt me so I cut him once with my knife but then he started hitting me with a lit welder so I hit him back.

Butterrobber202Today at 1:03 PM
Do the logs correlate with the story

FlamingoToday at 1:04 PM
The engineer definitely shoved the cargo tech first, then the cargo tech attached with a knife, before the engineer hit him a few times with the welder, and then they both went at it.

Butterrobber202Today at 1:10 PM
They are both at fault. The Engineer’s pushing was technically an IC issue because it’s somewhat proper escalation. But the engineer didn’t do anything to the cargo tech while he was down.

The cargo tech was wrong to draw the knife when the engineer didn’t push his advantage. So I’d hit the cargo tech with a “don’t respond to a push with a knife, you could run away into your nearby department, disarm him or call for security before fighting yourself.” And an escalation warning.

The engineer gets a note about proper escalation and trying not to fight to the death.

FlamingoToday at 1:13 PM
cool. Anything else to add on this one?

Butterrobber202Today at 1:13 PM
Hm. Why did the cargo tech have the knife?

FlamingoToday at 1:14 PM
He tells you “I found it in the warehouse and thought it was cool.”

Butterrobber202Today at 1:14 PM
Try to gently encourage him not to keep weapons on him for no real reason

FlamingoToday at 1:15 PM
sounds good. ready for the next one?

Butterrobber202Today at 1:15 PM
Ye

FlamingoToday at 1:17 PM
you’re playing in-game, repairing some broken windows as an engineer when suddenly a flood attack logs, followed by a bunch of ahelps come in:

A traitor roboticist is shooting people according to the logs. The ahelps are as follows:

“Uhhh... this robo just killed a bunch of people with literally no buildup?”

“I just got ganked!!”

“Dude this guy just killed everyone”

“HELP”

What do you do?

Butterrobber202Today at 1:32 PM
Tuck away my character and ahgost
Aghost *
Anyways I go looking for him and hit him with a “respond when you’re free” and wait for a response

FlamingoToday at 1:33 PM
He responds “???” But is still going around shooting people with what appears to be a gygax

Butterrobber202Today at 1:33 PM
“Why are you going on a rampage for seemingly no reason?”

FlamingoToday at 1:34 PM
“I am traitor??”

Butterrobber202Today at 1:34 PM
“Traitors have to push a narrative/compelling story, it’s not an excuse to murder the crew.”

FlamingoToday at 1:35 PM
he responds “oh I didn’t know”
at this point he has killed 6 people, and injured two more, but stops attacking.

Butterrobber202Today at 1:35 PM
“Well now you do, try not to just murderbone people in the future.” And give him a warning.

FlamingoToday at 1:36 PM
anything else for this one?

Butterrobber202Today at 1:36 PM
Is he new?

FlamingoToday at 1:36 PM
his account reports less than a week old

Butterrobber202Today at 1:37 PM
Then no, he stopped and responded well. Security can handle the rest

FlamingoToday at 1:41 PM
Cool. That’ll conclude the scenario questions then. Let’s move onto the personal section. First one:

You’ve got a history of being somewhat confrontational in deadchat/ooc/discord, as was brought up in your application thread by a couple people. Do you feel like this is a fair assessment, and how do you intend to respond to the feedback that was provided?

Butterrobber202Today at 1:45 PM
I’ve had this in mind even before I app’d. And after some thought I decided the best way to avoid being confrontational is to try to keep my opinion to myself. I said this in my app, but being a member of staff, your word has a small amount of weight behind it.

It’s a fair assessment to say I’m confrontational and blunt at times. I’ve been rude to people, but I’ve tried to be quick to offer sincere apologies. Sometimes my mouth runs in front of my brain, and I desire to go through the issues it produces because it’s my fault and my job to get them fixed/tied up.

So, in summary, I’m just going to tone myself down, and stick to doing what I need to do to help out.

FlamingoToday at 1:48 PM
Cool. Second question: What led you to decide to apply for a moderator position? Is there a specific event that spurred it?

Butterrobber202Today at 1:51 PM
I’ve been thinking about it forever, it’s just something I wanted to do, but recently I was messing around a dchat and I was talking about it. And I got a “bet” and funnily enough that was enough to motivate me to go app.

To be honest, I’d been holding off because I know there’s a handful of people that dislike me and I was wondering about how hard I’d get bit, but after I got motivated I came to the conclusion that I still want to do it, even if it doesn’t happen this time around.

FlamingoToday at 1:53 PM
Cool. Next question: Do you feel that the staff team (specifically the administrative team) handles their duties well? How would you change it if you could? What do you feel could be done better? Honesty is encouraged.

Butterrobber202Today at 1:55 PM
I think the staff does a really good job. The only thing that I can think of that I slightly dislike is sometimes you get ahelped for killing as an antag just because you had to do it because of circumstance , but I’ve noticed this happening a lot less frequently lately. So I’d still say they do a real good job.

FlamingoToday at 2:00 PM
Cool just one or two more. You’ve accumulated a fairly large number of staff entries during your time on the server. While some are from as far as 4 years ago, many are still very recent. How do you feel your notes will affect your moderator application, and what steps have you taken to try and reduce your accumulation of them?

Butterrobber202Today at 2:05 PM
I can’t say how the notes will affect me because I’m not the guy making the decision. But I think it’s safe to assume it’ll be negative.

I recently purged many of my aggressive characters and as I said above I just decided I’m going to chill out.

FlamingoToday at 2:09 PM
Cool. Last question: Are you comfortable with this interview being posted to your application thread?

Butterrobber202Today at 2:10 PM
No prob with me

FlamingoToday at 2:11 PM
Awesome. This concludes the interview. Any questions or concerns I can address for you?

Butterrobber202Today at 2:11 PM
I’m good, thanks for taking your time!

FlamingoToday at 2:22 PM
Cheers.