[Moderator Application NA] Eddie Shadow App

[Eddie Shadow Ragno]

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Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions

Last updated: January 20th, 2021

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Applicants Steam ID - STEAM_0:0:123855058

(1.) Do you agree to and accept the Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions? If so, please answer with "Yes, I do agree and accept these terms and conditions."

Yes, I do agree and accept these terms and conditions.

(1a) What is your most recent or commonly known in-game name or alias?

Ange De La Mort/Eddie Shadow Ragno

(1b) What is your current acuity level in-game? (MUST be at least Acuity 7 to apply.)

Prestige 6, Acuity 3

(1c) List any alternative Steam accounts you may have

N/A

(2.) In which time zone do you reside?

PST

(2a) Please provide the hours of the day that you are the most active on the Galaxy of Magic server according to CST (Chicago, US), so the managers and staff know when they can expect to see you.

Anytime between 2 PM and 3 AM CST

(3.) What is your age?

19

(4.) Approximately, when was the first time that you joined our Galaxy of Magic server and how did you initially discover it?

I originally joined in 2018, after a few years break joined back in September of 2021. I was just looking about gmod servers

(4a) How can we be certain that you will remain active on the server upon being accepted for a volunteer staffing position?

Many of my friends are on this server, I enjoy teaching the new classes, and I am interested in which way the server will proceed in terms of maps and prestiges.

(4b) Do you understand that you can be let go at any time for excessive inactivity at our discretion?

Yes

(5.) Do you understand and agree to not only comply with, but also enforce the rules of the server when necessary?

Yes

(5a) Please explain each of the main server rules and what they each mean, to convey to us that you understand and comprehend them wholly.

1. No fail RP:  No Fail Roleplay, No doing things that your character wouldn't do in game, breaking other's immersion. i.e Killing teachers or students as a Celestial
2. Be respectful: No disrespecting players or using hate speech
3. No RDM: No damaging other players without a proper role play reason
4. Obey staff and RP leaders: Listening to what you are told by those in a higher position, unless it involves breaking rules or a staff member tells you otherwise. staff's word above all
5. No free-spelling: No casting spells to hinder or annoy other players. repeated spells can be counted as free-spelling if asked to stop
6. No metagaming: No using any information you have gathered outside of the game. i.e being told something in discord about a snatch going on and going to rescue
7. Do not mic spam or chat spam: no making loud sounds or spamming sounds through your mic without staff permission
8. Telemail is for RP purposes only: Telemail should only be used for purposes like buying or selling snatches, activating pts, or dismissing classes
9. No ERP: No erotic roleplay, no making moaning sounds or talking about anything sexual
10. No exploiting or cheating of any kind: No using commands or scrips to AFK exploit or make it out of the map

(6.) Tell us a little about yourself and why you would like to be accepted for a volunteer staffing position on SBS. (100 words or less)

I would like to be accepted because I enjoy the community and would like to keep it fun and safe for the current and any new coming members

(7.) In your opinion, which quality of yourself do you feel that you need to improve on the most?

Sometimes I believe I can joke around a little too much and I cross the line of rule-breaking. I feel as if I need to improve of making sure those stay apart

(7a) In your opinion, which skill set of yours do you feel that you need to improve on the most?

I believe that I need to improve on not being as lenient as I sometimes let people off with a warning while prefecting or teaching

(8.) How would having you on our volunteer staff team benefit our server and what qualities set you apart from the rest of the applicants?

I will be active almost every day making sure they server stays away from unmoderated times, making sure the rules are being followed

(9.) Have you ever previously maintained a game server staffing position, or currently are, on any other Garry's Mod servers? If so, which ones, and in which staffing positions? (List them if possible)

Trail Mod SBS Hogwarts (R.I.P)

(10.) Have you ever previously been banned on any Garry's Mod or SBS servers? If yes, then please list approximately when, how long, and the reasoning(s).

Yes, very long ago, i do not remember why

(11.) In your opinion, are the server staff or the players of more importance? Why?

I believe the players to be of more importance because the staff team is there to assist the players with any troubles that may arise. with no players on the server there is nothing to staff

(12) How would you rate your skills overall out of 10 (E.g., patience, response time, etc.) -

Response time - 6.5
Patience - 7
Communication - 8

(13.) If you find yourself in a 'staff-sit' where you're unsure of how to fairly distribute punishment and or handle the situation or discrepancy at hand, what do you do?

I would ask the closest available moderator or admin on what they think of the situation and depending on the situation i would provide both parties with a warning or the appropriate punishment

(14.) You both understand and realize, that by applying for a volunteer staffing position on the server, you are sacrificing the complete freedom of being able to role-play and or socialize freely all the time without any interruptions, and are obligated to handle all server issues and or volunteer staff position tasks at hand no matter the situation and to the best of your abilities?

I absolutely understand and realize these terms

(15.) If applicable, please provide a list of all your previous volunteer staff applications, provide a link to them if possible, and list any reasons why they may have been locked. If they were previously accepted, please provide a short explanation of why you are no longer volunteer staff at the time of this application. (Disregard if this is your first application)

Unfortunately they have all disappeared so i cannot link them. but i was accepted into trial on my first mod application and denied on my second

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[Cauliflower Mcguffins]

Eddie is active and his activity spans different timezones, he also knows the rules and is one of the only people I've seen who actually teaches and does a very good job doing it.

+1

[Etlenor]

I'm sorry Eddie, but you're by far not ready at all to work on the staff team, even with the current server state. You rely on attention too much and that's going to make you incredibly blind. 

If I remember correctly, after you failed your first trial and were given a sit/punishment that you believed was unfair, you became this huge prick towards the team and specific staff members. You gave me and the rest of the team a terrible experience to be around and became a huge headache for months. You participated in constant harassment of certain staff and ex-staff members both online and offline. You would try your best to publicly shame them for the sake of attention. These people you harassed and purposefully annoyed and unfairly argued against are going to be your colleagues, and I'm very positive they remember very well the nightmare you were for a while. You can't just expect some of them to accept you back into the team in open arms. 

I also really don't doubt a single bit that you'd gossip about staff information or events that might happen behind the scenes for the same reason. I don't think you should be trusted with sensitive information at all.

The only times I see you on the server you're just flying around as a dragon with someone on your back (Yes, there aren't really a lot good of ways to enforce the rules atm, but just playing and flying around doesn't help you either).

A lot of other events that happened regarding you were discussed while I was on the team, but I can't accurately describe them. Either way, my vote is going to be a -1.

TLDR: Can see lots of backstabbing

[Eddie Shadow Ragno]

I'm sorry Eddie, but you're by far not ready at all to work on the staff team, even with the current server state. You rely on attention too much and that's going to make you incredibly blind. 

If I remember correctly, after you failed your first trial and were given a sit/punishment that you believed was unfair, you became this huge prick towards the team and specific staff members. You gave me and the rest of the team a terrible experience to be around and became a huge headache for months. You participated in constant harassment of certain staff and ex-staff members both online and offline. You would try your best to publicly shame them for the sake of attention. These people you harassed and purposefully annoyed and unfairly argued against are going to be your colleagues, and I'm very positive they remember very well the nightmare you were for a while. You can't just expect some of them to accept you back into the team in open arms. 

I also really don't doubt a single bit that you'd gossip about staff information or events that might happen behind the scenes for the same reason. I don't think you should be trusted with sensitive information at all.

The only times I see you on the server you're just flying around as a dragon with someone on your back (Yes, there aren't really a lot good of ways to enforce the rules atm, but just playing and flying around doesn't help you either).

A lot of other events that happened regarding you were discussed while I was on the team, but I can't accurately describe them. Either way, my vote is going to be a -1.

TLDR: Can see lots of backstabbing

Id like to thank you for commenting on my application and furthermore would like to address these comments

Indeed i enjoy going on the server and flying around as a dragon, but more than that I am a teacher who, on low population, is either in the classroom waiting for students to come get their work or on the steps enjoying conversations with those who decide to stay there. In higher population i am a teacher who gives actual lessons and lectures about the classes and giving "homework" assignments.

Indeed i was quite resentful and that resentment has long faded, but i do believe for me to be banned for 3 days for simply saying a c-banned player's name is quite unfair I believe. But still I waited and served out my time. I am not expecting anyone to welcome me with open arms, I would like for them to come on the server and see how I have changed from what I previously was. I am also quite curious as to why you'd think I'd gossip or leak staff information. The entire time I was previously on the staff team and even now, that has never popped into my mind. No one nor bribe could make me tell anything about what goes on within staff.

[Marlene]

Just wanted to say this, during my time on the staff team, I watched you be very hot and cold towards other staff members, and pick and choose what days you would be nice, and what days you’d be a dickhead. You were always very nice to me, and ofc that behavior was reciprocated from my end, but I’ve witnessed you become very belligerent and volatile towards staff members at the earliest convenience. They may not have shown it, but your incessant polemics and rude behavior became very frustrating and hurtful to others, and I don’t like the idea of someone talking shit about the entire staff team, and then applying to be a part of a team. You clearly have strong oppositions to specific members of the team, so why would you want to put yourself in a position where you would be required to work closely with them. I likely won’t see any reply to this on these forums, so feel free to dm me on discord if you have some sort of rebuttal. Although I doubt there’s any cogent explanation behind your obnoxious and shallow behavior.

[Chris Kim]

Your trial went on for around 5 weeks if memory serves me correct to which you said you'd be busy with work, etc which is totally fine but you were constantly on discord playing other games that weren't GMOD and you were barely cracking 14h when you weren't on LOA. The times you DID sign on, you'd maybe sit around for like 30m to 1h and sign off.  While it's 100x easier now to staff on the server due to low pop and very low expectations, I still don't think you'd be a good fit to be a mod. The times I did witness you in sits, you were always so quick to jump on the gun with banning people, you're supposed to educate players, not punish unless absolutely necessary. Given most of this was months ago, after recently witnessing your behavior after losing a server event and how much of a sour attitude you had shows you have a lot more growing to do. 

Until then -1. 

[Rachel Johnson]

Eddie, last night you complained to me about your ban for something clearly bannable. Why would you want to join a team that you've openly shit talked? You clearly cant take punishment and you expect people want to be given punishment by you? I hope during your trial you'd be met with the same attitude that you've given other trials when they were first starting. 

Some of my favorite moments with you have been you begging me to fly on your back so you can get information out of me. Or during my last few weeks as staff when you got upset I gave you a warning and got a group of people to watch you kill me if I came inside the school walls. Lets not forget that every time you would be an absolute dickhead to me you would say "but I love you Rachel and I know you understand our friendship." 

You even got Marlene to come back from the dead just to -1 you. Embarrassing. -1

[Lana]

Alright I think Eddie would make a fine staff member. But I will say a few things Marlene you abused your admin abilities to the MAX and Rachel you fuckin sucked as a staff member tried banning people on things you didn't know about and would pull people without reading console first (talking about detention stuff) and you'd go on LOA for weeks on end. so, there are things that everyone has done wrong, and Eddie is getting attacked and called names for what? like go back to not commenting on shit because let's be honest you came here just to shit on him. OK back to Eddie yes, I think he'd make a fine staff member since GOM came out he's been nice to new people showed them around and has been on teacher jobs. 

+1 for eddie!!!!!! 

[John Wave]

I had a conversation with Lana and it was pretty reasonable. I will change my vote to neutral towards +1 (an opportunity does not hurt and hopefully you can prove that you deserve this position

[Etlenor]

Damn, wasn´t Lana the one attacking me on the previous forums stating that I should have gotten demoted and that Eddie deserved to stay? Then Lana comes here and says that "oh my gosh people can't be talking about my friend Eddie he is such a good person"

Like, are you okay? A bit contradictory much? First, you say that Marlene was a bad staff member, then that Rachel was a bad staff member, however, Eddie was an amazing staff member and definitely not a player who breaks rules because he is friends with other high prestige minges who join the server because they are friends with some staff members, and they can break rules non-stop because they know they will never get banned!

Now in regards to Eddie..oh where should I start? Oh boy! Weren´t you the one that was telling other staff members that some staff members who were on LOA and were then dismissed from the team were really bad staff members? Aren´t you the one that is now friendly to everyone because you want to have a moderator position? Have some personality at least LMFAO

And Lana are you criticizing Marlene and Rachel because they were not biased and they warned your friends for breaking server rules? You are only nice to staff members like Etlenor who is a staff chat leaker? :D

true i leaked staff chat and got demoted for it