Application Quiz

So lately I've been seeing a lot of applications being made by people who barely have any posts at all. And from reading their application, I can tell that they have not read @Signatured and @GreenPeas's thread whatsoever (either that or they just skimmed through it). I then saw @edin61265's thread complaining about the same thing, and I was just thinking of ways to stop people from making these poorly written applications without having to implement a post count limit. I then thought of this.

What if, before you submitted a moderator application (when you click 'Post thread' in the staff applications section), it directed you to a Google Docs (or something else, I don't know) holding a quiz containing questions from Signatured and Peas's thread? That way, most applicants would post better written applications, then just answering questions like 'What is your experience and knowledge of Minecraft' with answers like 'i like to build stuff'. All of the questions would not be multiple choice, this way the applicant would not be able to skim through all of the possible answers whenever he gets something wrong. If the applicant gets one question wrong out of the total amount of questions, he would be recommended to try the quiz again, but he would still be able to apply afterwards. Any more than 1 question answered wrong and the applicant would be forced to take the quiz over again. This is how it would work:

1. Applicant clicks 'Post New Thread' in the Staff Applications section.
2. Link redirects applicant to a Google Docs form entitled 'Staff Quiz' (this step can be edited/tweaked).
3. Applicant reads through quiz, and answers question to the best of his/her ability (questions based off of Signatured's 'What We're Looking For' thread).
4. Once applicant is done filling out the questions, he/she clicks 'Submit' (can be edited), and if the applicant got all of them correct, it would notify him/her of this, and the applicant would then be able to create a moderator application. Once the application is posted, in order to post another one, he/she would have to complete the quiz once more. If the applicant got one question incorrect, it would notify him/her of this, and would recommend the applicant to take the quiz once more. However, the applicant would still have the option to create the moderator application. If the applicant got more than one question incorrect, he/she would be forced to take it over, with a button displaying 'Submit Another Form' or something like that.
5. Applicant posts the moderator application, and hopefully it would have more quality than most of the other applications that have been posted in the past.

Leave your thoughts below.
Thanks.

 

I see your point, I didn't consider this, but then again they would still be reading the actual thread, which is more than most applicants ever do. So I guess it's still an improvement as long as they remember what they wrote down on the quiz.

 

I don't know how they would do this, but they did something similar to this on the Brawl Slack Trivia section, where it asks you a question automatically and there are many different answers you can put down, and it can tell if you're right.

However, this quiz was supposed to be taken before you were able to complete an application. That way, it would get rid of many of the 'noob' applications that have been posted in the past.

 

The only people that walked in and got mod were people who were previously staff on McPvP before we merged with them.