Best Posts in Thread: Tech Application from cdhoff

you've only just been unbanned so this is a moot point. And since you have no idea what goes on behind the scenes at all, it's unfair to say someone hasn't worked on something. Your whole comment is fake news.

As for the application, can you explain where and how you'd currently be able to help the tech team, as they seem to be getting along with things quite nicely. You were demoted for a reason so the current team, which has remained the same, must think you pose no different skills at this time unless you've drastically changed in <1 month

 

I do understand the more the merrier thing but they had you before. In terms of Lord saying you should apply again, do you think he meant apply again really quickly or take some time to develop your skills personally and on the tech side of things?

Tech is probably one of the staff roles that has more responsibility, you are working on the very newest updates and fixes. The effect of leaking anything is going to ruin people's experience of the server. It pretty much goes without saying but if you're working on something people aren't supposed to know about or if someone has told you to keep quiet about something then of course you need to keep quiet. Forgive me if it seems like I'm giving you a hard time, I just know from personal experience how many hours, sleepless nights, and how much dedication goes into projects people are working on and to have someone say something on the off chance is something that really concerns me. I bring up leaking because of the keeping your mouth shut comment but also due to the no filter thing. We all might say things by accident, it's happened to me before when I hit /g instead of /s, but to me it looked intended when you said what you did in global. If you hadn't had a filter would you still have said it? If you can easily say things like that in global, what else would you say that you're not supposed to, yknow?

As for the idea from discord, you are given the full responsibility of a tech in order to see how you act with the role and how people react to you. If you don't have the perms, or even tag in game, then they won't get the full picture and will not be able to fully evaluate you in the role.

I believe you could do a good job if you have learned those things, like you said. However, I feel you need to get in touch with the community more. When you first applied and were accepted, I had no real idea of who you were and, being a staff member, you usually get to recognise names that log on regularly and interact with everyone. This is probably the main reason why I'm still hesitant, despite being a trial tech and you logging on, I still don't really recognise you as being online and interacting. Granted, not a massive part of being tech, but it helps for players to know their staff members. The lack of references either shows that you're not serious about the role, you don't interact enough with anyone to ask them, you're that confident you can get it yourself (which is fine), or you'd rather make a joke.

Again, please forgive me if I'm being hard on you, I would like to see anyone competent for the role to succeed, but I just felt like this application could be so much more.