Shadow's Trial Interview

StrudelToday at 3:20 PM
Alrighty! To start, i'll go over some basic introductory questions, and will provide you some commands that us Mods poses, for the duration of these questions we will assume that you are a full-time mod at this point, and not a trial. Due to this fact, you will have greater powers than what you would normally have, those being as listed:

Under the Player Panel you have a few options:
Kick
Note
Warn
Temporary Job Ban
Temporary Ban
Perma Job Ban
Perma Ban
Check Notes (Shows you all info of the ckey with of the things listed above)

Aside from that, you also have access to Viewing Tickets, which shows you every ticket (which includes log of all conversations during the ticket with staff) for the whole round, closed or opened, which staff have currently taken the ticket, and who/when the ticket was created.


Lastly you have the ability to Admin Ghost, this lets you leave your body with the ability to return to it unlike normal ghosting, and with this come the ability to jump directly to combat logs by clicking the 'jump' Icon, this will automatically aghost and teleport you there.


Theres a good chance I've forgotten something, so if you have any questions about your powers feel free to ask at anytime during the interview.

With that chunk of text said, do you have any questions before we start our first section of questions for the interview?

MacabreToday at 3:21 PM
Nope. I'm familiar with those commands.
Jumping to combat logs is nice. Hypaita didn't have that. Would have to aghost and find the person/s using the red text then jump command.(edited)

StrudelToday at 3:26 PM
Yup, very useful, plus a fun way to get to watch some cool merc v sec shootouts when they happen.

We'll start the first set of basic mod questions

First one is,
You are alone on the server during dead hour when you notice someone doing surgery on a miner who had fallen and been heavily hurt earlier that round. The only issue is this person is a Visitor who had been let inside to perform the surgery. How do you proceed?

MacabreToday at 3:35 PM
Sorry for the delay. Switched to my PC. First off, going to check the notes on this visitor. If they have a history of powergaming, was it? Where you know more than you should? Going to bring that up in a PM at some point. Also I'd PM the visitor, asking them if they've got a moment to talk after that miner's up and moving.(edited)

StrudelToday at 3:45 PM
They don't have any notes for anything on that issue. They claim that they are normally a surgeon, but had joined the round as a visitor, before the issue happened.

MacabreToday at 3:51 PM
Well then their character would know what do to. Which would disregard the idea of this being powergaming. Who let them in to do the surgery?
Assuming either an AI, or station bound?

MacabreToday at 4:04 PM
Did I lose you?

StrudelToday at 4:07 PM
Sorry about that was ordering some food!

MacabreToday at 4:07 PM
Ew. Food.

StrudelToday at 4:07 PM
Also an engineer had hacked them inside according to them.

MacabreToday at 4:09 PM
That bit seems to be an IC issue.. Then again, so does this whole thing. The visitor has the experience, so they say, Engineering let them in. Miner was dying. Honestly, the most I would do is PM them and inform them not to make a habit out of this. In the future, make sure they select the proper job, regardless of the situation.
Tag this as a note on the Ckey, and if becomes a habit, staff down the line might wish to talk to them.(edited)

StrudelToday at 4:14 PM
Cool cool!

Alright, second question.

You are sitting in the lobby when another staff member takes an ahelp. The staff member initially replies but after the person sends something back, the staff member doesn't respond. The ahelp in question is about a ling looking to kill someone at that moment. The initial staff member has already asked why they wanted to kill the person, and they responded with a sound answer. Its been about 3 minutes with no response, what do you do?

MacabreToday at 4:15 PM
Try to get the staff members attention. If I can't do so, I'm able to take over the ticket I assume?

StrudelToday at 4:16 PM
Correct.
The staff member doesn't respond for the moment.

MacabreToday at 4:18 PM
Right. I'd PM the person and if their response was sound as you said, I'd let them know to go ahead and apologize for the delay.

StrudelToday at 4:20 PM
The player seems upset about the ahelp taking some time, and attempts to confront you about it. Within their first reply they already seem heated, seeing as they missed their chance to kill the target, what do you do?

MacabreToday at 4:23 PM
Inform them that the delay was due to a staff issue, which was fixed as soon as possible. Suggest that they find another chance to get their target. If they do, they do not have to ask permission again.

StrudelToday at 4:24 PM
They continue to complain in the ahelp, stating that that was their one chance, again still continuing to escalate in aggression.

MacabreToday at 4:26 PM
Apologize once more for the lack of response, but inform them that I responded as soon as I could. They need to drop their aggression and find another chance to kill their target.

StrudelToday at 4:30 PM
Alrighty, and that will conclude the basic questions, onto some more personalized questions.

MacabreToday at 4:30 PM
Hit me.

StrudelToday at 4:33 PM
I'll start this from just a general statement, as I'm sure you know, sometimes being a staff member can make the game boring. Moderators have to do most of the menial things when it comes to staff work so it can dull out the game even more. Everyone's different, but everyone eventually will get burned out with it, which usually leads to them being burned out of the game for a while. Are you comfortable and willing to deal with something like this?

MacabreToday at 4:35 PM
I dealt with this on Hypatia. Modding/staffing in general can take a tax on the people who do so. I've dealt with it before and the best way I've dealt with it is to take a hiatus if I need to. I only ever did so twice. In the two years that I was staff.

StrudelToday at 4:36 PM
Speaking of your experience on Hypatia, do you feel there was anything that you struggled with as staff over there?

MacabreToday at 4:39 PM
Moving up. That was a bit hard for me. I didn't have the patience I have now.

StrudelToday at 4:42 PM
Sometimes us staff have been here for so long, we've been come slightly disconnected of how people feel about the server. Do you have any grievances or anything you would like to change about the server? Please note that anything you say isn't going to affect your application negatively, honesty would be great, and in the end it helps us improve.

MacabreToday at 4:44 PM
Honestly? Not really.. I mean, there's a bit of salt at the end of rounds, but that's always a thing. I love this server, and the way things are.. If.. anything I would like either for Ling to be re-worked so it's not so ganky.. or removed.

StrudelToday at 4:48 PM
Understandable!

Now, if you are accepted as a trial, there is a very large chance that you will be hazed, and made to take most of the ahelps for about a month, are you comfortable with this?

MacabreToday at 4:48 PM
Bring it on.
In fact, I encourage that.
I'll fight someone over an ahelp.
XD

StrudelToday at 4:49 PM
Oh you better not fight me on my ticket count smh.

FINAL QUESTION:
You fine with me posting this on the forums?

MacabreToday at 4:50 PM
I will and shall!
I sure am. Go for it.