Best Posts in Thread: Regarding Closing Helper Apps [rant?]

Well since we are staff, we make decisions.
As much as i can accept that an opinion is an opinion, I dont feel its nessessary to have to justify our decisions with players. Most players, yourself included, feel that just because our staff team is VERY player based and interactive with the community, you get to judge and scrutanize our decisions as if you know what needs to be done.

It gets old. Make a post about pokemon and for the love of god, let us do our job. :]

 

Don't they have enough to worry about with the Eula and making the donators happy with new perks? Leave it be.

 

I said in my app I can be active in pretty much any timezone. I'm slowly shifting my sleep schedule. It'll take me a bit of time but I'll be there. It'd be helpful for you to list some exact hours.

You probably know I'm one of the hardest on staff apps. I think everyone that was accepted with me is currently qualified. And honestly, it's pretty hard to get me to say that.
But I also do agree with you people like kling should be staff again. But he needs to apply again, explain the demotion and such.

I'm tryin', babe.
Someone can be an exceptional staff member in their own timezone. Sometimes it's just impossible to accept some people as staff and be okay with it. Not everyone in every timezone wants to apply, and those that do may or may not be qualified. We aren't going to accept someone based off of their timezone and their timezone will never be a deciding factor. We will also encourage you to apply but we most certainly aren't gonna force anyone.

 

Apps are open shut up

 

I understand why helper apps are closed for the time been so they can focus on the batch they have now and hopefully with this attention to the new comers will result with greater staff members. I also do see your point of view Sickly because when we play there are usually 0 staff members online.

I See that I have been a little topic in here so I would like to just state I was great in game with helping, connecting with players and also having a laugh. But when it came to forums not so much I made a hand full of comments that never needed to be said, I have never taken into account how you all perceive me I just do me and whether you all liked me or not that's how it would turn out (which for the foremost was/is positive which is great). So with a hand full of comments I made it would have not just make an impact on myself but the team as well. The way I seen it though the demotion was a good thing, sometimes you need to take a step back to continue forward. As well as having a low modreq count I did complete them when they were there but due to timezones there was not that many, I always continued to help when people would message me and when other staff members needed help with modreqs I would get online to help whether others are there to help or not. I see it nothing more than professional, I was a bitter at first because I really enjoyed it but it was the right thing to do to clearly state to me that stupid comments like that will not be tolerated.

With all this being said have a look on forums, see me in game and join in on team speak to see what I am like all round.

A month has gone by in which I do believe I am ready to be staff again, that will all come down to you the people and the team.
All we can do is continue to help each other and wait until it opens again.

* Edited grammar in a rush for work, herrew!

 

I use to care so much about who got added to the staff team and use to be rude to most staff members I didn't like. But I realized (2 days ago) that its not my priority to chose, and if staff want to add crap people (not saying that anyone is crap) let them do it. Its their server and we as players cant really say anything about their decisions. I am done caring about who gets staff and if staff are offline or inactive, we can always say our opinions but can't decide for them and as I mentioned before, its their team so let them do what ever they think is best for the server. On the other hand our job is to be players and enjoy playing instead of stressing out about the staff team.

Dawn, I'm just going to let you know that as a staff member you shouldn't argue too much because those arguments are going to lead up to you saying something that you will regret saying in the future, trust me I have done this before.

 

I thought I'd speak my mind in regards to the staff team choosing to close the helper apps.

I thought that the staff team "rushed" to accept a few people, then simply closed the option to apply for helper. Let me be straight to the point: Its dismal that there are over 15 mods/helpers, yet at certain times of the day, there are no staff online. For hours. Happens every day.

Rather than accepting 3+ different helpers who can't even perform their role, who are no more capable than some of the existing staff, I suggest choosing people who can be online when others are not--people who live outside the US. I'm hinting at @Kling here, as he was one staff member whom you could count on to be online at those odd hours of the night.

I understand that if staff choose someone for helper, its because they think they fit all the requirements, but does it matter if someone is an exceptional staff member if they can't be online when they are needed the most? And yes, there are many times when staff are needed during the odd hours, more than you probably think.

Food for thought

 

Heh, helpers are like kids, they dunno when just being quiet is the best of the options.

 

There's a difference between keeping people from insulting each other and just shutting down legitimate conversations for no reason other than that someone might be "offended". With staff like you we can't talk about any issue that really matters, which pretty much restricts chat to ads, boring small talk, and new players saying things like "how do I join a faction" and "I just found diamonds!". I can see why y'all are against things like intense swearing, but not letting people say anything worth saying because it might be mildly offensive to one person? That's just stupid. And if you are that person who's offended by everything? You're just stupid.

Also I agree that we do need helpers in more time zones, we advertise 24/7 staff but it's more like 20/7 most of the time.

 

You're a pretty stand up dude. Good insight.

 

Hey there. I noticed you said this:

While this is untrue, you may have noticed that we closed applications to make the team we have now as great as it can be before accepting new helpers. We are working hard to push through new changes and introduce our new helpers to this as well, but in my opinion, this eula situation may be some of the best experience these staff members can receive. Working with irritated players professionally and kindly is an outstanding lesson moving forward in the team, and I don't think we will have any trouble in the future. The applications closing is not a problem players should be concerned about because it is purely for staff.

 

Number one, squid aren't fish, they're cephalopods.
Number two, I wasn't talking about that conversation specifically. You randomly end conversations all the time.

 

They say a picture is worth a thousand words . . .
This one is worth five thousand . . .

 

There are only so many helpers that can be on a server. The reason it feels rushed is because one, there were multiple staff members that were demoted/resigned this past month, and two, they had to either accept or deny all applications in order for it be an efficient closure of applications.

You have no idea how hard staff try to be online all the time. Not to mention, there's less people who need help at those times of the day. I'm not saying Meepcraft shouldn't have staff at those times, but I'd rather be picking people based off good conduct. We had 24/7 staff before and I'm sure with due time it will happen again.

I would highly suggest allowing the new staff to gain about a month of experience before really trying to feel out what their qualities are. You can agree or disagree with me on this if you'd like and I won't bite a bit, but if someone has integrity and the right amount of experience anyone can be a helper.

Well, I apologize for living in the country that I love. If someone were to be denied due to their residence, would that be fair?
Then again, from a business point of view, they normally accept those that fill the void. It's all in how you interpret it.

 

So long as Meepcraft stays running I'm happy...

 

Truth be told, it's none of your business how they add staff. Be a player.

 

Really? is his post just that despicable that it disgusts you? is it just so horribly awfully terribly bad that you were purely and absolutely disgusted by it?

All jokes and banter aside, it's unfortunate to see so many complaint threads about the staff. I've ceased playing in-game but I do hope it gets better sometime, if it even is that bad. Right now I think the main issue is the eula, and that is big, so they've taken time into alleviating that problem.