Best Posts in Thread: Really, is it necessary?

Just do what exactly?

 

I'd like to call attention to your sig picture and end it at that. Ty for your time

 

Gee I've never seen that meme before. How original and new, 10/10.

 

they sell hot dogs too ya know

 

So, one thing that has bugged me and some others for a long time is people posting 'I don't see you in global', which really annoys me. The fact that you cannot help people in a private conversation is ridiculous. For a starter, yes you may not know what their strategy is for helping but why does it matter? The people who they help are the ones who know mostly what they are like. Since I was staff earlier, I know that you mainly talk in private or local chat. I was told that talking in private is the best way. That means that people don't interfere. I pretty much never see staff members helping in global unless people need help. You help in private chat.
Also another thing is that you should NOT post your opinion unless you actually know of them. What help does it bring to the thread if you just post, -1 Never seen you. Nothing! Absolutely Nothing.
So, before you post on applications. Post something useful. If you want the applicants to help more in global, tell the staff to as well because this is just plain annoying.
P.S, a tip is to check what the timezones are. If they aren't in your timezone, you probably wont have met them

 

What she said ^.

Totally agree that "-1 never seen you means very little"; and that it is a useless tool to grade a potential volunteer. I'm fairly confident that no one that matters pays attention to them anyhow.

I've always opted for applications to be private, after all if I were to hypothetically apply for a job at burger king and the manager told me that he needed to post the application out front for all the customers to vote on.....

You shouldn't have to eat at burger king every day to get a job on meep. Yea, make sense of that!

 

Jamez I understand your concern as I had the same problem when I was applying for staff. I agreed with you during that time as it is a bit spammy when everyone is answering the same question for someone in shout.
The reason people like to see applicants answering questions is because it proves that they have the knowledge to answer basic questions. Another thing this does is makes the player recognizable by others in a positive manner.
In my personal experience, when I applied, I was recognizeable by my activity on Teamspeak and word. I would privately help someone build a house or solve a problem, and they would naturally tell other people "look what so-and-so did for me!" There's tons of ways to get known without answering questions all the time in global, but people need the patience to get generally known.
Now I'm not saying you have to do exactly what I did, but be creative! If you need anything you know I'm here for you, and feel free to contact me if you need anything.