Helper Application from ImNotBlonde

Member Name ImNotBlonde

Additional In Game Names: N/A

How old are you? 19

Location: Colorado - Arizona in a few weeks.

Do you have TeamSpeak? Yes

How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekdays) At least 3, 8 max

How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekends) At least 3, 8 max

Have you ever been staff on this or any other server? Yes

References: Please give IGN's

When did you join Meepcraft? Not sure of the exact date. I bought Premium on April 25th, 2012; but I started awhile before that.

Introduction: Hi guys!
Hopefully a lot of you know me by now. My name is Michaela and I play as ImNotBlonde. As many of you know, I have been staff before. To be completely honest, I have probably spent about 80% of the time I've had on Meepcraft as staff. I originally joined Meep in the first few days of April 2012, and then became a moderator about a month later in May 2012. After my initial position as a trial mod, I became a Moderator for 8 months before my promotion to Super Mod. After 3 or 4 more months of being a Super Mod, my real life caught up to me a bit. I quit due to different priorities becoming more relevant to my life and my future. That being said, I have served as a Moderator three (yes, three) other times after my initial introduction into staff. I served as staff on Old Meep, "The Golden Age", right before MeepNetworks (during the first spawn change), and during MeepNetworks. Needless to say, I have been with this server through a lot- and that's something I continue to uphold. I've also served as the Social Representative of Meepcraft, which I enjoyed a lot as well.

Now that you might have a better idea of who I am as a player, I'll tell you a little bit about me personally. I'm going to Arizona State University this Fall and I'm studying Performance. I play guitar and piano; I take dance classes in tap, jazz, and ballet; and I participate in both contemporary and music theatre voice lessons and music theory. I currently have a job as a Sales Associate at Bath & Body Works, which I absolutely love, but will have to quit soon since I am moving states for college. I also played competitive club soccer for 10 years, and Park & Rec. soccer simultaneously for 5. I am an ice skater and have won Colorado Gold for my division twice, and the Silver once. Although I no longer compete, this is still a big love of mine. I like to get involved in a lot of different things and I have a large variety of interests. I enjoy photography, writing, and reading as well (look up David Foster Wallace). I volunteer as a coach for children in beginners' ice skating and at a couple of my local elementary schools. I've also done set construction 8 hours a week for 6 months each year over the duration of my 4 years in high school. Living in Colorado, I've acquired a tremendous love for hiking mountains and finding new adventures. So that's just a little (or maybe a little too much) about my personal life.

Why should you be Helper? There are quite a few reasons I have decided to finally apply to join the staff team again. For one, I've noticed that the current staff appears to be a great group of people with different talents. One of the times I quit staff was due to the corruption I felt the team had. I remember making a huge thread on forums (the old forums) once I became citizen about how the overuse of power on the side of the staff team was driving players away and creating an unfair environment for a lot of people. I didn't really want to be a part of that or stick around during that period, so I did leave. Seeing the way the server is run now, I can tell that's not an issue.

I think that my experience in MeepCraft's history has given me a lot of tools that I can't forget. I know a huge problem throughout different people of power has been the abuse of that power. I think it's important for you all to know that I have never abused my power or been demoted. I have been entrusted with OP multiple times and have built parts of old Spawn, Spleef, Spleef Spawn, Hunger Games lobby, and much more (not the current ones though). As a supermod I had creative just about everywhere- definitely in the Wild and Towns world, and I am pretty sure in Spawn as well. Throughout all of my time on Meepcraft I have never abused the trust given to me by the community and those above me to hurt other players, the economy, or the server. This goes with when I served as the Social Representative- I never painted Meepcraft in any kind of negative light nor fell short of my responsibilities.

In my time as staff I have completely many, many thousands of Modreqs. I'm sure this might sound like a broken record, but I did serve while there were 1000 people on at a time. Back then, we had the same number of staff. That meant that every moderator had to learn to become masters with commands and efficiency when it came to completing requests. It's been awhile, but I know that's still something that is one of my best skills. I have also always been able to find hackers, dupers, and griefers pretty quickly. I think that my lifestyle off of the Internet has contributed hugely to my ability to multitask, and it translates well to Minecraft.

What has changed me this time from my last few staff experiences has probably been my increase in community service and job experience. I work with Elementary schoolers and hold a position at work that is almost entirely about Customer Service. This real world experience has made me much better at being patient, understanding, and quick to resolve situations.

There have been many times in which I'll be online and there will only be one staff member there. I think that can be a little bit too much for one person to handle monitoring chat, completing Modreqs, and doing the every day things that staff members do by his or herself. I know that I could make it much easier on those staff members by taking a load off of what they're doing at those times.

I have owned towns before and currently live in one in alpha and one in beta. Because of this I know almost all towny commands. I also own an island on Skyblock which I just became involved with about a month ago and I have been expanding my knowledge of all the different mini games. I think it's important to continue introducing players to all the different actives we offer so that their interest does not wain.

One of the most important things that I have currently been doing is making sure that every day I warp to the tutorial at least once or twice to guide new players through the MeepCraft experience. I know that a lot of new players get confused with the long book of rules and don't really know how to build a foundation in the game. I usually tend to give new players wood, iron tools, chain or gold armor, and food. Then I proceed to take them to the Wild, help them find resources, and then help them find Towns. I think this is really important to improving the player base and I feel as though it would be much easier for me to complete this process more quickly with a Helper title next to my name to reassure new players that they can trust me.

What are your weaknesses? First off, I am positively horrible at PVP and Parkour. It's embarrassing and it's sad, and I would dishonor a staff title with my KDR. On a more serious note, I think it's pretty obvious that I have a history of trolling. I joke around a lot, but I have never made those jokes at the expense of other players. I realize that when people see someone as a staff member, that person becomes a role model to others. This is something I take very seriously. I understand that it requires a different mindset and attitude to be on staff than it does to be a regular player. I also have heard staff talking on forums about Prism. I don't really know what that is, or if it's just another name for some of the stuff I've already done. Hopefully I will be able to figure that out quickly, but right now I am pretty uneducated about what that entails.

Please give any other information you might think is useful for us to know: Well... If you aren't already asleep from how much I wrote.... Thank you for bearing with me! I woke up at 5:00 am to get more pain medication since I got my wisdom teeth out yesterday, and then just felt really strongly that I needed to do this.

On a side note: I was asked about the possibility of being Meep's social representative today for Facebook and Twitter, possibly Youtube and Instagram as it progresses.
I understand if I can only do one or the other- they are both great opportunities and I would love to help current players as a Helper equally to how much I'd love to bring in new players as a Social Rep.

I really look forward to reading all of your suggestions, (constructive) criticism, and thoughts.

 

+1 overall
+Great application
+Prior staff experience
+Mature
+/-No prism experience (Addressed in weaknesses though)
+/-Maybe some activity issues? Not sure how committed you are to being on meep because I've seen you come and go over my time on the server. (Kinda addressed in app)
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I believe you are a positive member of the community now and you'd make wonderful face for MeepCraft. You also care so much as demonstrated in your app. I feel as though you'll get a lot done and push the staff to be even better. +1

 

Yeah, I have come and gone a lot... It's hard to dedicate almost 4 straight years of your life to one game xD I do feel as though I want to be here for awhile though this time. After spending the last couple months getting to know the current player base I feel like I would have a lot more reason to keep coming back than I used to.

 

+1

This was probably the best application I've seen.
You're mature, experienced, and know what it takes to be an effective staff member.
I would write more but it's not really needed.

Good luck!

 

basically it's hawkEye, just a log feature thing staff use now.

Honestly, I'd +1 simply because you're one of the only older players that actually waited to apply.

 

Theey cant deny you lol

 

+1
Staff could really use someone like you right now.

 

+1
Really nice person
Seen lots of activity from you recently
You would be great as staff

 

+1.

 

As much as you joke a lot, like you said, I've never really seen you make any spiteful jokes, nor those at the expense of other players. You know how to make people laugh without being rude, which is a skill that a lot of people don't have.

I have absolutely no doubt that you could easily excel as a Helper.

By the way, you shouldn't be too worried about Prism. It is very similar to HawkEye (though I'm not sure if staff used HawkEye or LogBlock when you were staff), only with many more features.

Good luck!

 

+1

 

+1.

 

your back?

logged in just for that.

accept to staff team all I have to say.

 

[I<3Fuzzlr]ImNotBlonde:

+1​

 

You gave my first perm ban <3 +1

 

and I just have a quick question. how many weeks have you been back and active again?

 

I've used LogBlock a lot, I found it very effective. Hopefully that would help a little

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