[Denied] Karolis2011 Moderator application

[Karolis2011]

Basic Information

Byond Account: Karolis2011
Character Name(s): Hadriana Antonia (Security cadet), Linton Braxton (Station engineer)
AI Name(s): Unit-127 (Robot), System-127 (AI, but I rarely play as AI)
Discord username + tag: Karolis2011#2011
Age: 22
Timezone: EEST/EET (GMT-2/3)
When are you on Aurora?: Currently during various times, when available, most often evenings

 

Experience

How long have you played SS13?: About 7 years.
How long have you played on Aurora: About 3 years
How much do you know about SS13 (Baystation build) game mechanics?: I currently know a lot of technical side of our codebase, if some mechanic is unknown to me, and time allows I look it up in code.
Do you have any experience moderating for an SS13 server?: I was moderator for about half a year on Aurora. 
Have you read through the criteria thread; https://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=4198 - and believe that you mark off all the criteria?: I am a bit out of touch with forums, but I will try to involve myself more in to forum activity. On other side I am very active on discord.
Have you ever been banned, and if so, how long and why?: I was not banned for anything in past few years.

 

Personality

Why do you play SS13?: Ever since friend introduced me to SS13 I been fascinated by heavy roleplay and futuristic fantasy worlds that people build themselves and live on trough there characters.

Why do you play on Aurora?: I been playing on aurora for quite some time, and I fell in love with community and players. When I see well known name in game I feel all happy to see someone continuing playing this game, even when considered it's quite a time consumer.

What do moderators do?: Moderators are like guards and guides combined, to help shape game if something goes drastically south. So they handle reports of rule breakers, try to catch them as they commit villainous acts. 

What does it mean to be a moderator for our server?: It would mean to me that I am held a high enough standards to work along current moderator team. I would be honored to be able to help maintaining this environment for events and roleplay.

Why do you want to be a moderator?: As currently seems that many moderators have retired I want to fill out moderation team. Also it seems that often I found myself enjoying moderating.

What qualities do you possess that would make you a good moderator?: I love helping people, but I am strict about enforcing rules. 

How well do you handle stress, anger, or insults?: If I am no longer capable of withstanding situation, I often seem to prefer to back out of situation. 

 

Anything Else You Want to Add:
Yes, I have retired from moderator position in past. While it had nothing to do with moderator position, it was tension I felt from one specific staff member. Also real life studies became harder for me to handle, and overall situation ended up with me not being in good mindset. 

So I took a break, got way better, and here I am again filling out moderator application.

[Faris]

I cannot support this. Despite your recent activity, I’ve seen a lot of negative interactions in the past.

 

You have the tendency to be extremely negative and toxic towards people, something I’ve seen you act like when it comes to coding.  It is my belief that the attitudes of people are contagious to a degree, so having someone vocally negative about things would only damage the community. Not my nicest feedback to an application and I don’t want you to take this as an attack against you; but I don’t think you’re suitable for the role with your mentality. 
 

It’s too soon to see if you’re suitable.

 

[Karolis2011]

11 hours ago, Aboshedab said:

You have the tendency to be extremely negative and toxic towards people, something I’ve seen you act like when it comes to coding.

Sadly this is true, and I can't argue with that. 

Best I can do about that is change how I look at development topics, as often I find myself too attached to them and when my ideas are being contradicted I find myself going towards negative those who dare to question my idea. Moderation team for such reasons have rules that issues that are related to you can't be handled by you, you need another moderator to look at situation without bias. 

Thank you for pointing out negatives of my personality.

[Faris]

1 hour ago, Karolis2011 said:

Moderation team for such reasons have rules that issues that are related to you can't be handled by you, you need another moderator to look at situation without bias. 

I don’t think you understand still. 
 

The ability to hand something off to someone else due to bias is a luxury. You need to be able to understand the measure of bias you may have and be sure to one as objective as possible to be fair.

 

And the above only works if a member of staff is able to police themselves. If you see something from the lens of hyper negativity you’re liable to over punish someone or to disregard what they have to say, making the incidents you handle liable to be handled improperly. 
 

There is also the component of trust. I don’t think people can trust you in this position for reasons I’ve outlined in this post and the previous one. 

[Flamingo]

After speaking with the applicant, we will be denying this application. You are welcome to contact me directly on discord at Flamingo#5454 if you have comments, questions, or concerns.