The most drastic change to prevent losing members on the forums.

Most of the time, people just make an account on the forums just to apply. If mod apps were disabled, than we wouldn't even have as many players make an account. Than again, they make an app, they get denied, and they never come back on again. There's also the problem of the players who meet all the reqs for mod and are on good terms with most of the MCBrawl community. If mod apps were blocked, than these capable players wouldn't be able to apply for mod than. I'm gonna remain neutral on this.

P.S. According to Ollie, having ts3 is optional, but Skype is mandatory.

 

This explains a lot however we can make some changes to it like block off the staff apps until the new people that want to apply, they must reach 300 post/message count, then the staff apps will be unblocked for them. A sign should say more detailed information about the staff apps.
There are ups and downs to this like:

Good things about this:
This would cause less staff app's being spammed.
We wouldn't have to use SNN always.
The people who make it won't leave from our opinions based on the mod app.

Bad things about this:
People would spam to get their post count up.
There are going to be lots of threads about like "how do I get to post in the staff apps?" type of threads.

The debate on this is going to be quite a challenge to see if this gets accepted or not.

 

I agree with firestar that most people just come onto the forums to apply. Maybe someone can code on this website that you have to have over 300 posts to apply. And maybe some other things as well.
Idk if this is possible though :/
EDIT: NUU the panda ninja was ninja'd!!!! Hoooowwwww

 

This can be difficult because of timezones, but I saw putty sometimes in the weekend.

 

I rarely see putty on ts, Chaploo is always in the admin's room so you can't talk to him while Phinary is pretty much inactive in is cave. Putty is always in a private conversation so you can't really talk to him. Besides I only go on ts to talk with people that want to talk. The fact that you just have to talk to putty to become mod is really ridiculous. If the mod apps are disables a lot of people are going to quit and that sucks since the forums are dying, the only way is to set a automatic message when your first applying for mod that says the requirements

 

I wouldn't say Putty is inactive at all. And that statement:

Is not true at all ; I had never spoken to Putty on TS before I was accepted.
Also, an idea about Staff Applications - Make them private. Disable them to users, and only let Admins review them.

 

The general opinion of the community is still needed :V

 

Correct it is, well then, how about:
Staff Applications are initially sent to a private area with only admin access.
Good applications can then be but into a 'Pending' section, where the rest of the community can have there say.
Whereas, the worse applications can be simply disregarded before the public get the chance to give all the:
"Short new no" business.

 

yep that seems reasonable, no more replies on the stupid mod apps ;V I think the system your proposing is better than the current one

 

Maybe they have to have a certain amount of positive ratings. So even if someone spams to get their post count up they still will need the positive ratings. Going on the reason that they will ask why they can't post, then maybe it can say something like this:


Sorry, you do not have sufficient positive ratings and posts to create an Application

Try again when you have __ posts and __ positive ratings


Alas, we have to wait until we get another web dev.

 

Positive ratings are not a fair judge of character on the forums. I mean, the user with the most positive ratings is now banned.
I mean, anyone can ask a friend to spam them with likes.

 

Yeah, you have a point with that. I really don't have a solution for this. I guess we'll just have to wait.

 

I think staff apps should be viewable by admins only. The current system is just stupid.

I've seen a couple posts on other forums about how people in our community are extremely rude to new players in staff apps.

 

Just make it so they pass through an "admin filter" to get to the community section. You guys can basically just filter out all the new members apps and let the community have a go at the ones who "pass" the preliminary test.

 

This would be very effective. The Admins will decide on whether or not the Application stands a chance (Members who apply with little posts or the Application is not very impressive will not make it through), and if it does, it will be posted for the public to view. This would prevent the community from posting harsh comments on the bad Applications, and we can state our opinion on the ones that are sent through. Excellent idea, Grey.

 

The only thing I worry about with the admin filter is that we don't have a lot of active admins that browse the forums. We have putty, and then yinscape and phinary sometimes. The other ones don't come on the forums unless there's a purpose for it. There's a lot of apps that are made so i'm not sure if it will be too overwhelming for putty to also have this job on his shoulders along with the other jobs he has.

 

@Mokolee did you ever thought about it that putty and chaploo live in america, which means that it is very hard to talk with them if you live in europe, asia or something.
And there are also many europeans on european times on the servers, so we also need mods who can play a this time.
So totally removing apps is definitely not a solution.

I think thats the best solution, but if members cant comment anymore, an admin should make a message with reasons when he denys it, cause if they never get feedback, they can never improve.