[FreeStylaLT] RP Admin Application
Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2021 3:17 pm
BYOND ckey:FreeStylaLT
Character name:Hawke Boetirson | Lahabiel | Mikki Cemyaza | Gabriel | Pravuil | Sraosha | Chet Mitchells
Discord username (+user id):FreeStylaLT#5207
How long have you played on Citadel?:~10 months
How long have you played SS13?:~6 years
What is your timezone/general hours of activity?:GMT+2. Availability variable, due to varying shift times at my work.
Previous SS13 related admin experience:Paradise ~2015-Present
Previous non-SS13 related admin experience:N/A.
Current administrators who have agreed to support your application:Silicons
Reason for application:Referred by Silicons
1. How would you engage with two players having an out of character altercation?
This is working with the assumption it has either gone on for too long or has gotten too heated.
OOC chat: Tell them to stop, mute OOC if they persist after another warning or not, depends. Unmute it after a short while.
Discord: Round up whatever tangential mess of a discussion is happening with a conclusive statement or two. If it persists (it probably will), decide to either:
A) do nothing, and let it fizzle out as people get tired of being angry
B) contact the offenders in DMs to talk about the situation, both stopping them from discussing it in public chat to DM you back, and giving you valuable opinions / takes from different perspectives.
2. What should an admin do if they're involved in a situation that needs admin intervention?
Depends, but generally nothing. If you screwed up to the point you are getting an admin complaint posted, internally or publicly, you'll more or less have your fate decided for you and the best you can do is explain and / or apologise for your actions.
3. How should an admin determine in what way to punish someone who breaks the rules?
Using whatever punishment policy you probably internally have. If not, on a per-admin subjective gradient of intent, consequences of actions and attitude. A newbie engineer who delammed the SM and is genuinely regretful isn't deserving of a ban (again, depends on your policies), but a griefer is deserving of a permaban, in spite of the end-result being the same (a delammed SM).
4. Under what conditions should an admin de-admin themselves while playing?
You guys probably have policy on that. If not -- literally any. Staff are players too, and should be allowed to enjoy the game like anyone else. It's a malleable thought with its own reasonable exceptions / expectations, but fundamentally, an Admin shouldn't feel obligated to be an admin and bwoinkwatch. Having an ahelp relay on Discord or whereever else is extremely helpful for this, so they'd know when they have an actual non-passive reason to re-admin.
5. What is expected of an admin on Citadel?
To be more patient than the players, to be responsive to ahelps, to be responsive to complaints, to be able to speak for and explain the decisions of the headmins or maints, to be both understanding and reasonable and also strict and punishing, to be intrusive to the gameplay for the sake of fun, but also to give them space and not interfere with organic RP. To be able to respond and resolve a wrongful sentencing Sec matter in under ten minutes, but to also leave things to IC. To respond to faxes and prayers. Oh, and I guess uphold the rules sometimes.
Character name:Hawke Boetirson | Lahabiel | Mikki Cemyaza | Gabriel | Pravuil | Sraosha | Chet Mitchells
Discord username (+user id):FreeStylaLT#5207
How long have you played on Citadel?:~10 months
How long have you played SS13?:~6 years
What is your timezone/general hours of activity?:GMT+2. Availability variable, due to varying shift times at my work.
Previous SS13 related admin experience:Paradise ~2015-Present
Previous non-SS13 related admin experience:N/A.
Current administrators who have agreed to support your application:Silicons
Reason for application:Referred by Silicons
1. How would you engage with two players having an out of character altercation?
This is working with the assumption it has either gone on for too long or has gotten too heated.
OOC chat: Tell them to stop, mute OOC if they persist after another warning or not, depends. Unmute it after a short while.
Discord: Round up whatever tangential mess of a discussion is happening with a conclusive statement or two. If it persists (it probably will), decide to either:
A) do nothing, and let it fizzle out as people get tired of being angry
B) contact the offenders in DMs to talk about the situation, both stopping them from discussing it in public chat to DM you back, and giving you valuable opinions / takes from different perspectives.
2. What should an admin do if they're involved in a situation that needs admin intervention?
Depends, but generally nothing. If you screwed up to the point you are getting an admin complaint posted, internally or publicly, you'll more or less have your fate decided for you and the best you can do is explain and / or apologise for your actions.
3. How should an admin determine in what way to punish someone who breaks the rules?
Using whatever punishment policy you probably internally have. If not, on a per-admin subjective gradient of intent, consequences of actions and attitude. A newbie engineer who delammed the SM and is genuinely regretful isn't deserving of a ban (again, depends on your policies), but a griefer is deserving of a permaban, in spite of the end-result being the same (a delammed SM).
4. Under what conditions should an admin de-admin themselves while playing?
You guys probably have policy on that. If not -- literally any. Staff are players too, and should be allowed to enjoy the game like anyone else. It's a malleable thought with its own reasonable exceptions / expectations, but fundamentally, an Admin shouldn't feel obligated to be an admin and bwoinkwatch. Having an ahelp relay on Discord or whereever else is extremely helpful for this, so they'd know when they have an actual non-passive reason to re-admin.
5. What is expected of an admin on Citadel?
To be more patient than the players, to be responsive to ahelps, to be responsive to complaints, to be able to speak for and explain the decisions of the headmins or maints, to be both understanding and reasonable and also strict and punishing, to be intrusive to the gameplay for the sake of fun, but also to give them space and not interfere with organic RP. To be able to respond and resolve a wrongful sentencing Sec matter in under ten minutes, but to also leave things to IC. To respond to faxes and prayers. Oh, and I guess uphold the rules sometimes.