The7thLain Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 Hi everyone! The Human Lore team is prepared to open deputy applications up in our search to find a third member of our team. We're excited to see what you all may come up with and are quite interested in seeing how the community perceives your ideas as well. This is something that is very important to me any my deputy @NewOriginalSchwann. We've worked together on the human lore team for over three years at this point and truly love what we do, so we hope that you will take the application process seriously and treat it with the same passion we do if you do choose to apply. The application will consist of seven questions which we expect to be answered sincerely and honestly. Expectations and Standards: Along with the questions we will be asking, there are a few standards that every applicant must meet. They are as follows: If you are chosen for the Human Lore Deputy position, you must be active in the role. You must write and/or contribute to lore team discussions routinely and regularly. Failure to do this will see you removed from the position for inactivity. Simply put, we need people who can consistently contribute to the work we do in the Human Lore team and with other lore teams, and if we do not have that then we do not function efficiently as a lore team. If you are chosen for the Human Lore Deputy position, you must maintain a positive relationship with the community. Once you become staff and become a Human Lore Deputy, your community interactions no longer just reflect on yourself but reflect on the Human Lore Team and all Lore Staff as a whole. This is not to say that you can no longer have any friends or have fun in the discords, but that you should keep in mind that you're no longer just yourself after being selected for the team, and if your behaviour in the community is unbecoming of someone in the Human Lore Deputy position, you will be subject to review by myself and Lore Team Management. Additionally, you will be required to follow all the server rules applicable to staff members. You must be prepared to work with other species teams and not just on the ideas that you want to work on. Being a lore deputy does not mean that you always get to write what you want to write, and often times means that you will write on projects that you did not come up with or initialize. Being able to work on these sorts of projects and being able to accept and implement constructive criticism on your own ideas is essential to being a good deputy. Disagreements can happen often over creative direction within teams and between teams, especially when two teams are working on the same project or in the same area. Cooperation is essential to working as part of a lore team, even if there are differences among its members. If you do not think you can work well with others and acknowledge the ideas of your fellow writers during the writing or idea-crafting process, do not apply. If you would like to comment on any of these above standards in your application, you are free to do so but they are non-negotiable and if they are not kept throughout your tenure as Human Lore Deputy you will not maintain the position. A rule for those commenting on applications will be put in place as well. Anyone can comment on an applicant's application; however, you must maintain good conduct and obey the server's/forum's rules. Brigading or otherwise ganking applications with mass -1's or name-calling without providing legitimate criticisms with the applicant's behaviour and/or positions stated on the lore in their applications is not allowed. Posters that do this will have their posts deleted and may be subject to actions from moderators or admins. Format: Please make your application as a forum post under the applications boards sections and clearly title it in a way that it would imply to a reasonable Aurora forum browser that you are indeed applying for the Human Lore Deputy position. Along with this, please clearly provide your BYOND ckey and how long you have been a member of the Aurorastation community. When answering the questions asked in the application, please copy and paste the questions onto your application and respectively provide your answers to each question. Questions: Now onto the questions! All of the following questions must be answered in your application. You may choose to answer these however you please, however incomplete answers will work against your chances of being chosen for the position. We in the lore team will question your answers in your applications if we see the need to or desire clarification. Be prepared to discuss and defend or adapt your positions against criticism they may or may not receive from those in the lore team and any community members that comment on your application. Applications that are incomplete and do not answer all seven questions will be rejected by default. Spoiler Why are you applying for this position and why do you believe you would make a good Human Lore Deputy? What is your favourite part of Human Lore and why? What is your least favourite? (Note: If you submitted something that was canonised and is now part of human lore, you may not select your own canonised submission as your favourite or least favourite part of the lore.) What are three projects (medium to large sized additions, reworks, or arcs) you would like to do or help organize if made Human Lore deputy? (NEW PLANETS OR FACTIONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM ADDITION AT THIS PRESENT TIME. DO NOT INCLUDE THEM IN YOUR ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION.) What do you believe are the current strengths and weaknesses of human lore? Why? What would you do to improve upon the weaknesses? What are your thoughts on the past arcs that have been organised by the human lore team? What is an idea for a future arc that you would like to have a part in writing and organising in the future? (Note: If you provided an arc or arcs as part of your answer for question 3, you may expand on the ideas for that arc or arcs here, or you may provide another idea.) Have you ever been subject to any strikes or bans of any kind from Aurora's moderators or admins? If so, how long ago were these actions and what were they for? Time Parameters: I realise this may seem like a pretty daunting and long set of questions; however, they were chosen to help us decide who the best candidate for the job might be and we did not want to compromise on getting good applicants and seeing strong discussion among the community on these posts. For this reason, applications will be open for three weeks rather than the standard two. We in the team do reserve the right to extend or shorten this period as we deem fit, however as of now, applications will close on November 13th, 2023. This post's title and text will be updated along with a subsequent discord announcement if any changes are made to the current applications timeframe. Lastly, I genuinely hope that you, the applicants, contemplate these questions well and enjoy your application process. I know it can be hard to essentially be grilled by the community for your stance on lore for a few weeks, but I hope that this helps you inform your positions on the lore well and can help acclimate you to the Human Lore Team. We hope that this experience is fun and engaging for applicants and community members alike and wish good luck to anyone who applies! If you have any questions about format or questions, please feel free to message me on discord (I am on all of the official Aurora discords) or through the forum's private messaging system. Good luck! - TheBurninSherman, Human Lore Maintainer Link to comment
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