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In Game Name: rAwsondayc
Skype Username: Awsonday
Teamspeak Username: rAwson
Mic use: All the time, unless I'm being yelled at by my mother.
Age: 15
Timezone: (EST) Pennsylvania
Hours online per weekday: 2 - 5
Hours online per weekend: 6 - 8
Position Changes: VIP to Helper

Introduction: Well, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Dawson. I am 15 years old and live in Pennsylvania. I'm fairly new to being active on the server, but I've already become somewhat known to the community. My friend (rchessmasterc) showed me Minecraft around 2008, back when you could download a trial version that you could only edit the world for 60 minutes, in survival. After a while, he decided to get an account. After a week or so of begging, he gave me the login information. I played single player all the time. I even brought my laptop on vacation and played for hours while my family was at the beach. At the time, servers were a whole different level. rchess and I had no idea how to do anything other than mine and build dirt houses. We then found LAN worlds. Unfortunately, we used the same account so LAN was impossible. After weeks of begging to my mother, she said I could get an account.

LAN worlds- all day, everyday. Along with LAN, we figured out Creative. At that point, we just gave each other diamond gear and fought monsters like "bosses". Then, the idea of servers came up. From then on, I don't remember much. Just going from server to server all the time, never staying on one. Kind of boring I suppose, but we didn't give a crap. Then, my mom and dad told me I was addicted. I do have to admit though, I really was. I was staying up until 2 am on school nights (that's late for a 10 year old). I was then grounded, "forever". A year went on by, a girlfriend came at one point, a made some friends, played some sports. I got a life I guess. Then, I asked (just like I did every month) if I could play Minecraft. To my surprise, my parents said yes.

I became less of a noob, playing on factions servers, towny servers and kitPVP servers. The first server I really stuck with was *********. I joined one day, and an admin named JP helped me create a faction and played some Survival Games with me. I build a really noob base, it was a castle on top of a hill. Not the ideal location. I donated to the server, cause yolo. I became friends with almost all of the staff and the owner. After a bit, I was finally invited to the faction all the staff were in, Empire. Man, they had a good base, obby everywhere. After about 10 staff apps, I was accepted. From then on it was really fun. Of course, like it had to at some point, Empire split. I joined another faction named Brittania, led by Erebus45. That was great until one of our members raided us. Then, Brittania fell. I made a new faction with rchess and his brother (who just began to play) named Airnomads. Around that point, word had been spread that ********* was combining with another server. It did, but it really didn't combine. More like took over. This server was **********

********** was great, a towny server that I loved. LexKristen was admin, Qwiken was mod, and Dancing Cactus was Tech. I, as I did on every server, then made staff applications. Eventually I was accepted. After a few days, I did a lil griefing. LET ME EXPLAIN THOUGH- There were animals trapped in a hole, 2 deep with an odd shape in a town I had an embassy in. I let them free, and by let them free I mean I trapped them on my plot. A demotion came soon after. I was still very active on the server. Later on, the server was being shut down due to Meepcraft. You guys really took our players but ya know, competition is a thing. Many kitPVP servers later, where one said I had to donate to be mod (left right away), and another where the staff were seriously harassing. Now, I come to you to play Towny .

Allow me to explain my username - it comes from pig latin (my parents spoke it when they didn't want me to hear something). Dawson translated into pig latin is Awsonday. Now, as a child, I was not as creative as I am today. I jumped on the bandwagon with rchess and added "r" at the beginning and "c" at the end. rAwsondayc was "born".

Lemme throw in a little personal life too I suppose.

I grew up in PA all my life, and was born with food allergies, the most severe being peanuts. At 2 years old, I was messing around with what I thought was chocolate covered candy. Of course, it had to be chocolate covered nuts. I almost had to have one of those holes in my throat , the kind that smokers have, can't remember the name of it. Around that time, my parents made the decision to cyber school me. I grew up acting at a local playhouse, it was my life long passion to be an actor at that point. In 2002, my dad was diagnosed with hotchkins lymphomia (spelling is WAY off, I know, sorry) in his lung. I saw him go through many hospital visits, and IV in the house that I had helped change, and many other things that scarred me forever. I had 2 sisters, one now 12 and the other 6, so there's a good side to this. All was well, it was a usual process going to the hospital whenever he was admitted for some odd reason. Whenever he came back, it was only for a year at most, then he was gone for months.

The cycle continued to move, and this was how I learned to live life. November 2012, I was woken up at 4 am by my sister who screamed at me "Dads bleeding through his nose!". (WARNING SOMEWHAT ADULT CONTENT) He was over the sink, bleeding through his nose and mouth, while my mom was on the phone with 911. After a few minutes, he took a look at me, while I was peaking through the crack in the door. At that moment, his eyes shut, and he fell over backwards. A bloody scene, and I get chills typing it now. The worst park was seeing and hearing my mom try to give him CPR. What had happened, was because of his low immune system, a bacteria ate his lung away.

After that, I made the harsh decision to go to public school for 9th grade. My god, was that a terrible choice. Going into high school, as "freshmeat", not even knowing how to sit at a desk. I made some friends, until one day I lost a ton of them. I said I was trying out for the school show, at that point, the gay comments flooded in. I was back stabbed, cheated on, and given death threats throughout the first half of the year. I came right back to cyber school after.

Well, it seems the story has caught up with me, so that's my life right there.

Why you should be Helper/Mod ?

Well, I hate being self centered, but here's what I'm good at:

TEAMWORK: Sometimes easy to do, with the right people, and always has a positive outcome. I cannot stress the importance of teamwork. I work well on teams because as a kid, I grew up in theater (as stated), and knew that every person, weather a small role or big role, carried on the performance.

INDIVIDUALITY: I'm odd really, a bit flamboyant I will admit. Get to know me though, I'm cool. I think.

CREATIVITY: Again, coming from my performances on stage, creativity gives life to everything and anything. I absolutely love playing the piano and trying to create new chords and adding them together in new ways. I'm a little rusty at piano now though.

SENSE OF HUMOR: I'm funny af. Everyone likes a funny guy, AM I RITE?

LEADERSHIP: I can lead as well as the Alpha in a pack of wolves. I always take the road that's never taken, giving no experiences to all that follow. Leading is something that I feel is key, and I can absolutely handle.

SOCIAL SKILLS: Although I've been cyber schooled for years, I have great social skills if I do say myself. A sense of humor really helped, and also the fact that my Dad turned me into a gentleman at 5 years old. I'll tell you, I shook a mans hand so firmly (don't take this weird), and I was respected.

IMAGINATION: I got that too.

Weaknesses:

I'm a bit of a noob at advanced commands, and I'm not really a guy you would go to for tech purposes.

I'm sensitive, and sometimes a bit too sensitive. I'm trying to correct that.

I have ADHDI (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder with Impulse). The Impulse part means that I have troubles with decision making. I feel though, that I have overcome this. I was diagnosed with this 2 years ago, so it could be inaccurate.

Conclusion: Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this. It took me three days so you BETTER enjoy this! I really love the Meep staff and community (Don't mean too "kiss-ass" there) and I hope to help out the server in every way possible.

 

When someone says that you advertised your application, they are talking about ingame advertising. Posting a link to the thread as a status on your profile isn't considered bad from my experiences.

+1 Although it's been a while, I've had experiences with you where you showed a great ability to lead.

 

This application has been denied.

You just got back from a long break, and we believe it would be beneficial for you to submerge yourself more with the community before you become staff! Feel free to reapply in no less than 2 weeks

 

DAMN STRAIGHT HE WAS

Anyways +1 because you have past experience and when I worked with you you were always positive

 

Disorder... not disease... and while it's not a "weakness," it's good to acknowledge a difficulty that might impact staff duties. rAwson, in the future you could just list the specific qualities that you see as weaknesses and are working on (like the impulsiveness) without detailing why you have them.

He was banned (not anymore) because he asked a mod if something was illegal, and the mod thought he was asking if it was legal and said "no," when it was in fact illegal. Zan's minimap is not specifically named as an illegal modification, and Rei's minimap (which sounds and looks very similar) is listed as one that's allowed. I can totally see how that misunderstanding would happen.

That said, I'm neutral on this application. It was well-written and thorough (maybe even a little too thorough in your introduction), and it sounds like you'd do well (and have in the past), but I'm just not familiar enough with you in-game to give an informed opinion. I personally would like to see people be more consistently active (not popular necessarily, just active) before they become Helper, but that doesn't seem to be a requirement anymore, despite Cooleysworld's thread. Good luck!

 

Alright, for all of you who believe I'm banned, the statement is now false. It was a misunderstanding allowing illegal mods. So please, continue posting reviews!

 

I smell bias