owengpowell14 Staff App

In Game Name: owengpowell14
Skype (Yes/No): Yes, owen.powell55
Teamspeak Username: owengpowell14
Mic use: I have a decent mic
Age: 13, almost 14
Timezone: EST
Hours online per weekday: 1-4 (depends on my schedule)
Hours online per weekend: 2-8
Position Changes: Citizen (elite)- Helper


Introduction: Hallo! It's Owen Powell, or owengpowell14. I'm a fairly well known player, mainly because of my love of /g, using way to many emoticons, and my wonderfully mediocre jokes and puns. I love MeepCraft, with the magnificent towny system, the wonderful community, the fascinating forums, and just the great experience of being on the server. I started playing Meep briefly in 2012, on another account, but didn't really get into Meep until I rejoined in early 2014. Since then, I've made many wonderful friends, such as Zebo, BobJon, Blackoak, Brandon, Iate, and many more! My work and experience in MeepCraft consist of lots of activities, such as helping players get started, posting and suggesting many ideas on the forums, great conversations on TeamSpeak, building goliath skyscrapers from ground up, and many more fun stuff! This server is my favorite online activity and I'd love to become more involved with it!


Why you should be Helper/Mod ?

-A Desire To Help: Right now, I strive to help out as much as possible, answering questions in /g, building free houses for residents of my town, making helpful suggestions on the forums, and I've even offered to help staff out with /modreqs once (they polity said no thank you)! But, the ways I can assist this server are limited. If I get staff, I'd be able to use HawkEye to stop griefers, get people's questions answered and give advice in /modreq, and take care of people's glitch reports. Helping would be my #1 priority as a helper (hence the title) and I believe Meep would be a little bit easier for new players.

-Respect For The Rules: I follow every rule on the server, and would enforce all of them firmly, but fairly, whether I agree with them or not. I've never been banned, or even kicked, and take great pride in that. I'd never dream of defying the rules of MeepCraft, even if I wouldn't be caught.

-Self Control: Temptation sneaks up on all of us at the wrong times. But, I've learned to resist it. When someone breaks a town rule, spams me, is rude to me, I don't lash out and attack them, I handle it responsible and respectfully. Instead of cursing back at them in all caps, I'd ask staff "Hey would you mind doing something about this guy, he's being pretty rude to me" and let them deal with it.

-A Optimistic, But Not Unrealistic, Attitude About The Server: I always keep a positive vibe about MeepCraft, whether it be in-game, on the forums, TeamSpeak, or just talking about MineCraft with my friends. Whenever someone wants a recommendation for a new MineCraft server, I blurt out "MeepCraft" before they can even finish their sentence! But, I still can see the flaws and problems with Meep, and strive to fix them.

-A Passion For MeepCraft: As I previously stated, I strive to make MeepCraft the best server it can be. Whenever I play, I'm constantly analyzing everything that's going on, and thinking "How is this effecting Meep". I always want to make sure this server is reaching it's reaching it's full potential, than blowing that out of the water.

-Activity/ Involvement: I'm active in all 3 aspects of MeepCraft, In Game, The Forums, and TeamSpeak. I try to be on each at least for 1 hour to 1 hour and a half. I'm deeply involved with the server, and keep up with everything that's going on.

-Justice: I always strive for justice. In real life, I'd want to take jury duty (when I'm old enough), no matter how tedious it can get, and make sure justice was brought in the court. On MeepCraft, I'm the same way. If someone was wrongly banned (fortunately I've never seen that happen) I'd stand up for them. And if I felt something was unjust, I'd try my hardest to change that.

-I Can Take Constructive Criticism, Learn From It, And Apply It: I always listen to constructive, helpful criticism with open ears. Then, I apply it. For example, when Bob4444444 told me on my 1st app to "stop responding to people" (although he was much politer than that ) I thanked him and did just that.

-Outside The Box Thinking, But An Ability To Make Compromises: In my opinion at least, my viewpoint differs from a fair amount of players and staff on MeepCraft. But, I can still listen to them, respect their opinion, and maybe even agree with it. Like I've said before, multiple perspectives and mutual agreement is a path that's bound to lead to successes.

Things I Need To Work On (Weaknesses):

-I Can Contradict Myself Sometimes: One day, I'm doing a great job at school, being helpful, friendly, getting all my work done having a great attitude. But, the next day, I'll be sour, sassy, un productive, and not so nice. Some of my greatest strengths are also my greatest weaknesses. For example, I put self- control as a strength. But sometimes, even the weight of temptation is to heavy for me to carry.

-Ego: In this app, the weaknesses section was the hardest to write, because I have trouble pointing out the flaws in myself sometimes. I have a large ego, but try not to show it.

-Making Dumb Decisions Because Of Lack Of Though: Although this issue has significantly approved, I still make regretful choices at times because I think to quickly. For example, I'm talking to one of my best friends, and he says something I don't like. I'll say something mean and offensive that I didn't mean to say, and it'll damage our friendship.

-Confidence/ Nerves: Sometimes, I'll let my nerves get the best of me. A time when this happened was in my staff interview, when I couldn't say good answers because I was nervous. And that damaged the quality of my interview, and led me to getting denied.

-Being To Lenient Or To Strict: At times, when I'm put in a position of authority. I used to be admin on another server (I resigned recently) and I'd ban a little to easily, or, at other times, I'd be a little to reluctant to use my power. But, this problem is waning as I'm learning by example when I watch staff do their job.

These weaknesses are all ones I can overcome easily, by just giving time, thought, care, and hard work into them. I have faith in the fact that I'm strong enough to beat these shortcomings in my personality.

Conclusion:
I have confidence that I'm ready for a staff position after all my time, experience, dedication, and work I've put into the server. I thank everyone who took the time out of their day to read my application. I hope you'll be respectful, honest, and tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear.

Sincerely,
Owen Michael Powell

 

-1
- Never seen you in /shout
^ Let alone helping
- 90% Forums
- 10% In-game
- No TS.

 

-1
• Same timezone, barely see you in shout
• Don't see you helping much
• Your activity I can't really believe mainly cause I don't see you that much in game or in shout.

Others will say the rest.

 

-1
you have a problem with me saying your real life name.
owen.

 

-1 I see you online Ig often and you hardly ever shout. Your forum activity is lacking and I've never seen you on Teamspeak.

 

-1
You aren't really active on any aspects of the server, let alone just in game.
I never see you helping or even talking in shout.

 

Exactly this ^

 

-1
-Frequent grammatical errors.

 

That's not a valid reason... unless they are completely horrendous. Say if you were to Highlight his sentence you would get a "Google Translate" Icon then it would be an Issue. I could understand what he was saying with no issues.

 

Can't really say anything because of the bias +/- wise, but good app! Hope you get accepted!

 

+1
Good friend
seen in shout
active
I like you

 

I'm at a -1.

Pros:
-nice
-decent activity
-decent application

Cons:
-many basic grammatical errors
-doesn't help in shout
-says rather bizarre things from time to time that are rather un-staff-like
-immaturity

 

-1
You don't really help, you're pretty immature, I still can't get over how you think/thought cursing makes a playing experience more fun, and this:

Is very rude to talk about someone like.

 

-1. If you can't overcome that fact that you abuse power and if you can't control it then you shouldn't handle this much power in a server like this.

 

-1

umm, I have not seen anything from you that would make me trust you as a staff member. I believe you lack the decision making, maturity and responsibility to efficiently manage shout, modreqs and the community...

...but the application was above average!

 

We have the same timezone and I've never seen you on TS or IG. -1.

 

-.5
You're active and nice, but I also just don't see you as a staff member. I think you could work on a lot of things.
Good luck though <3

 

Can't really Vote because you're my friend, but I'll give you some honest feedback about your Application, and your Activity overall.

+ Friendlines: You're very friendly to almost everyone I see you talk to
+ Forums Activity: I see you active on the Forums
+ In-Game Activity
+/- Teamspeak Activity: You go on once every few Days from what I see
+/- Application: Your Application was above Average, but you used the word "Help" a bit too much
- Shout Activity/Helpfulness Via /Shout: I don't really see you in Shout that often, and when I do, you Chat more than try to Help people.

You didn't have to put my Name in your App

 

Accepted; we'd like to see if your interview could improve.
Please contact a staff member for a time for your interview.

 

Hi owen -

We would like to inform you about a possible interview time. There will be a staff meeting at 8pm EST this Sunday (10.12.2014). There will be interviews 2 hours before that and then interviews following the meeting. We are hoping to get the majority, if not all, the interviews done so you guys aren't sitting in there forever. Let me know if this time does or does not work for you via Skype or inbox me on forums.

Hope to see you in an interview soon!

Cheers.
BooBear1227