Tricking Trapster's Interview Transcript

StrudelToday at 8:36 PM
Alrighty, you ready for the interview?
Tricking TrapsterToday at 8:38 PM
Yeah.
StrudelToday at 8:40 PM
Alrighty, as you were previously staff so I am assuming you know all the basic stuff you would have as a moderator, since you were a madmin, so I will skip those for now. For a majority of these questions, we will assume you have passed your trial, so you have full Moderator permissions and abilities. If you at any time have a question about perms or abilities feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer them.
Tricking TrapsterToday at 8:41 PM
Very well.
StrudelToday at 8:41 PM
We'll start with the formality questions, just the normal interview questions, and then I'll move onto some more personal questions about your previous time as a staff member, sound all good?
Tricking TrapsterToday at 8:42 PM
Sounds good, yeah.
StrudelToday at 8:44 PM
Alrighty, Question numero uno.

You are sitting in the lobby during dead hour, you notice that not many players are currently on at the time, and you are the only staff on. The round is a Cultist round, and a series of ahelps from cultists appear, all of them claiming a lone security cadet has murdered all of them about twenty minutes into the round. How do you proceed?
Tricking TrapsterToday at 8:44 PM
Was the security cadet the only security staff?
StrudelToday at 8:45 PM
Correct, there was a officer but they had gone offline five minutes into the round.
Tricking TrapsterToday at 8:47 PM
Alright, first thing is I jump to the cadet and superficially check if they have weapons out. If they're trotting around firing them all over the place I might wind them, depending on where exactly they're doing it. Then I contact them and ask them why they were murdering the people that they did.
StrudelToday at 8:49 PM
They have a shotgun on their back, laser carbine in their right hand, and a laser rifle in their other. They respond saying that they were cultist, and that security was just dealing with them.
Tricking TrapsterToday at 8:50 PM
I also ask how they got their weapons as a cadet.
StrudelToday at 8:52 PM
They claim that the AI let them into the armory, though the AI did recently go into storage.
Tricking TrapsterToday at 8:53 PM
Alright, I ask the cultists about their activities thus far, as in if they did anything to stir up suspicion, and check the armory doors for prints.
StrudelToday at 8:54 PM
There are no prints on the armory door, so it can be assumed an AI touched it. The cultist claimed they were acting as if they were some sort of new religion, trying to convince people to join it, so far they had someone willingly join it, and it appears there had been no hostilities prior to them both being killed in the bar lobby.
Tricking TrapsterToday at 8:55 PM
I ask the cadet what specifically led him to go and 'deal' with the cultists.
StrudelToday at 8:56 PM
They only state "They were cultist"(edited)
Tricking TrapsterToday at 8:57 PM
I tell him that this is not a valid reason to go murder them, especially as a lone security cadet, and check their notes for any related behavior.
StrudelToday at 8:59 PM
They appear to have a large amount of notes regarding validhunting, they have been banned at least once for hunting down Mercs as a Cargo Technician, and also have many notes about having a very MRP to LRP attitude about things.
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:02 PM
I inform them that since this is the lastest in a series of his behavior like this, I'll have to ban them over this, as he should know by now that this is not allowed. I check what his last ban was like, and increase the severity accordingly. Afterwards, I ask an admin to rejuve the cultists (if contextually applicable, if they'r ebeing cloned already this will not be needed.)
StrudelToday at 9:02 PM
Alrighty, onto question number two.
You get an ahelp regarding a player angry that something has been happening in the community, they go on a rant in this ahelp about how the admins are corrupt, and the moderators are just helping out their bosses, glossing over the fact that x is happening in the community, overall they are being very aggressive, and have been openly rude about certain staff members, how do you proceed?
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:07 PM
I tell them to calm down and take this to a more appropriate place (forums or discord, which depends on the context of what's being said) and that ahelps/tickets are not the place for this. Afterwards I close the ticket, because they should not be using ahelps for this.
StrudelToday at 9:08 PM
They almost instantly ahelp again, stating that every time they take it to the forum, nothing happens, and that everyone just shitposts in Discord, and nothing is changing.
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:10 PM
I tell them to maybe try personal messaging -one- admin if they want to avoid shitposting on Discord, but to keep it off OOC and ahelps. And if they have an issue again in the future, to use ahelps to ask where they can post instead of venting the entire problem there.
StrudelToday at 9:13 PM
Alrighty then! Last formality questions, might as well do an old classic!

You are sitting in the lobby when you see "Banna Vader, Assistant" coming from Odin, dead chat instantly points out that they are a bald assistant, and their account age is exactly 0 days. They do not even try to go to the station, they instead instantly start spamming WGW over the radio. You are currently the only staff online, how do you react?
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:14 PM
Since they're spamming WGW over the radio, I wind them and inform them that they have a rule-conflicting name and that spamming WGW over the radio is forbidden too. I ask them if they've read the rules.
StrudelToday at 9:17 PM
They begin spamming the N-word in OOC, and log out.
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:17 PM
I permaban them and see if I can get them cryo'd somehow.
StrudelToday at 9:18 PM
Not fifteen minutes later, 5 different incarnations of the name "Ban Evader" appear at odin and Cryo, they are all running around and causing havoc, you are still the only staff online at the moment.
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:22 PM
I wind them all, tell players in OOC to stay calm while this is getting handled, and notify the admins on discord what's going on, then start immobilizing and removing the ban evaders from the game (I forgot if mods can do mutes or not). And wait for an admin to show up to help me out with preventing the evader from coming back.
StrudelToday at 9:23 PM
Mods can Mute, thankfully.
And alrighty, moving onto the more personal questions.
When you originally retired from your position of admin, it was a bit rocky, do you feel that this will affect your opinion of staff or your actions of staff should you be accepted for your trialship?
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:26 PM
Like I said, it was a rough time IRL at that time for me as well, and part of my frustration went to the server. But that's behind me now so it should not be a factor.
I posted it in my app, under extra comments.
StrudelToday at 9:27 PM
Alrighty, Do you believe something like what happened before could happen again?
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:28 PM
Unless there's another avalanche of bad luck regarding my daily activities, my education, my income and the government trying to push me all at once again I believe it won't.
StrudelToday at 9:29 PM
Do you think anything should change with Aurora? Be it lore, regulations, staff interaction, or really anything?
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:31 PM
Based on previous experience I would like there to be some kind of failsafe for massive character changes after a rule change, but other than that I find the server to be fine still. (Of course I still hate cult and it must die but that's a meme by this point.)
StrudelToday at 9:31 PM
Alrighty, are you comfortable with me posting this interview publicly on the forums?
Tricking TrapsterToday at 9:32 PM
Yeah, go ahead.
StrudelToday at 9:32 PM
Alrighty interview concluded