Juani2400 Posted November 17, 2019 Posted November 17, 2019 Ckey/BYOND Username: Juani2400. Position Being Applied For: Interim LoreMaster Deputy. Past Experiences/Knowledge: I have never worked with or within the Lore Team before, and thus have zero experience or creativity in the aspect of writing lore, which is the reason why I have never applied for such positions before. However, I have been serving this community as a moderator and then admin for over 3 years now, with no interruptions, and through all of this time, I've been working in most if not all of the faces of this business. I was part of the trial moderation team, in charge of the whole process of trial moderator recruitment, for about a year if memory serves well, under the command from Catnip at first, and Flamingo for the most of it. I have relatively recently quit that team to focus entirely on Command applications, which is my main and only focus as it is. As you can probably guess, our main role as modmins is, in fact, resolution of conflicts that arise from player interactions. Most of them are handled in-game through ahelps, and some of them you can see posted on the forums. I've decided to apply since I think my experience and profile can meet the requirements that are being looked for in this position, namely being a peacekeeper, a resolver of issues, a recruiter and a handler of unhandled applications. The Loremaster has also asked for someone who is naturally calm, unbiased, level-headed and friendly, and I think most of my interactions with the community in this regard can be proven to be evidence of these traits. Naturally, as an administrator, there are times in which you need to be quite firm with how to speak to people on ahelps, complaints and similar, but that is not my natural state, and I think the modmin team can agree I'm as soft as a plushie on a personal, natural level. On the specific topic of handling applications that have not been taken care of by the species loredevs, I think I have a decent understanding of how most species work, having passed all the processes to be in the possession of species whitelists for Tajara, Skrell, IPC and Vaurca, while being an active player of all of them (IPC is probably the least one I play on a regular basis). Besides my experience in this community, I have also served in a few other different community and places on the internet in positions of responsiblity, most of them always having to do with people. I will not go over most of them since it is basically neglegible for the position I'm applying for, but I have served as Human Resources Director for an online community of about 800 active members, handling all of the affairs having to do with them. Examples of Past Work: I have no physical evidence of any past work because I have done none! Closest I have done towards writing something sensical and sensible for this server was when I started the draft for NBT suggestion, which involves a portion of lore (setting, structure of the base...) which you can read here (it's not complete, since I started working on it too late and was never posted, some people may have read it already since I've posted it before on Discord): Link to Google Drive Additional Comments: I definitely think there is people way more capable of occupying this position, with past experience as lore writers and similar profile to mine, however, I think it would be interesting to serve in a different team for once after a while, and get a more in-depth view of what happens behind the curtains of the lore team which, besides what I can see on their Discord channel, I'm sure I'm not that updated on. Approval from Alberyk was granted to go forward with this application, to make sure no unwilling association of the administration of the server happens with the lore administration. Anyway. That's my application. I think I covered most of what I wanted to cover on it. I'm fully open for questions in regards to the application itself or my duties as an admin of the server. A lot of you know me pretty well, some don't know me at all, so any kind of questions is welcomed.
Snakebittenn Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 I have nothing against Juani. He's a pretty pleasant personality, and a hard worker in the Adeptus Administratum. However, I can't in good faith support this application. I would much rather have a candidate with tangible experience in the lore team. As well, despite having access to the lore chat, you have never seemed interested in our going ons before now, posting a very limited amount of times, primarily for clerical purposes (valid.) I am also unsure about how interested Juani is in non-Skrell/Diona races.
Juani2400 Posted November 18, 2019 Author Posted November 18, 2019 1 hour ago, ParadoxSpace said: I have nothing against Juani. He's a pretty pleasant personality, and a hard worker in the Adeptus Administratum. However, I can't in good faith support this application. I would much rather have a candidate with tangible experience in the lore team. As well, despite having access to the lore chat, you have never seemed interested in our going ons before now, posting a very limited amount of times, primarily for clerical purposes (valid.) I am also unsure about how interested Juani is in non-Skrell/Diona races. I have the privilege of being able to read and write on the lore_writers channel, but you're right when you say I barely use it for other motivation that is not related to what I'm suppossed to do there, which are clerical purposes as you say. If you've ever seen the hierarchic relations of the server, on how staff interrelations work, you'll see that the Administration branch is completely separate and unrelated to both lore and development, which both respond directly to the Head Developers, and have nothing to do with us. I do not mingle much with any of those, other than the occassional remark, or comment which is normally unrelated to lore itself; I like to keep in my lane as what my current position entails, even if I do have the privilege of being able to interact with you over that channel. I have zero authority to go and give my opinion about something in those channels, and the reason we have them is to be able to actually moderate, and perform our assigned tasks with ease. It would be no different if someone external from the staff team applied into the position, from my point of view. I do understand your concern, however, since as I've pointed out in the application, my relation to lore has been minimal for the time I've been in the server. Mofo, according to both the thread and our private conversations, is looking for someone able to manage the lore staff and issues, rather than someone who will take the lead on lore development. I know lore experience is valued, but the reason I applied is because I feel this position can be taken on without much prior experience to it, since out of the tasks outlined by Mofo, only a couple require 'lore experience', and one of them is processing whitelists whose lorewriters can't handle for whatever reason. I am in possession of four out of the six species whitelists, and keep up-to-date, as much as I can, to their lore developments. I'm pretty familiar with most of our lore, barring certain minor topics I've never showed interest in. Quote I am also unsure about how interested Juani is in non-Skrell/Diona races. I'm not sure what you meant by this, but I don't have a Diona whitelist, and I'm pretty interested in all species I have my whitelist for pretty much equally. While I mostly play Skrell, it's not a hard preference, and you can commonly find me playing my Vaurcae or my Cats indistinctly. I don't play IPC that often, because it really limits the RP in a way I'm not a fan of, but I do have IPC characters that I play from time to time. I do not intend to mess with any of the species maintainers' vision, since I'm a firm believer of lore development freedom, as long as Mofo, who's setting the main guidelines of development here, agrees with it, and as long as it makes sense/doesn't give a 180º turn on what's already developed, wasting everyone's effort in the process.
Guest Marlon Phoenix Posted November 18, 2019 Posted November 18, 2019 (edited) For administrative stuff the deputy doesnt need to know all our species to heart. Mofo didn't and neither did i. But im sure juani can listen and get caught up on an issue when necessary. This standard if applied systemically would render zero applicants qualified. Edited November 18, 2019 by Marlon Phoenix
Carver Posted December 8, 2019 Posted December 8, 2019 To provide a contrarian thought; fresh blood is exactly what the lore team needs. For that, along with his stellar experience within other staff positions and carrying a fairly professional attitude, I'd say Juani is worth a chance. +1
Mofo1995 Posted December 16, 2019 Posted December 16, 2019 Hello! I wanna start off with this round of applications was a close one. In my call for a deputy I asked for a manager of people, professionalism, and a peacemaker. I am fully confident that you are all of these things. I think you would have been absolutely excellent for the position, and as someone who isn't a current or past member of the lore team, would have been baggage free from all the factionalism and drama that the team has experienced. I had actually planned on accepting this application before Kyres applied and I had to reassess. I would've been really happy to have you on the team, and I'd even go as far as to encourage you to keep your eyes peeled for any future lore team openings that you might be interested in since I think you would be a strong addition. For now, however, this application is denied. Thank you for your interest!
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