Honest opinion on applications. (WARNING):This is a rant!

I'm always honest (staff apps, Creative apps, etc). If someone votes no, so be it. It's their opinion if they don't like that person; we should respect that.

P.S. The poll has very little influence on the final decision.

 

What Nine said and also, maybe the people who voted no had other reasons apart from his application? They might feel like he has the wrong character for Moderator, isn't active enough ingame or on Teamspeak.

 

If I dislike someones character I'm not going to vote yes on his application just because its well written.

 

This sums up my opinion.

Well, Mellow, you see,

Long applications are too common these days. And if I believe the person isn't ready for such a responsible position, I'll give it a -1. I purely judge the apps based on how ready the applicant is, and how active they are.

EDIT:
We already have enough staff members.

 

We don't really have that much staff... IF you think about it, during certain time zones, there are no staff on certain servers.

 

*cough* APPLY *cough*

On Topic-

Players vote "no" on applications for many reasons. Jealousy, hate, may be age, activity or just to go along with what a staff member said.
Everyone can give their opinion on a player when he/she applies for staff. However, we use the poll just to get an idea of the community's thoughts. I'm no SMod or Administrator, but I don't think they look at the number, they look at who voted what.

 

Yeahhh.. we have 11 moderators...

 

The poll doesn't influence the decision at all because it can in some cases be very biased.

As for your point about people voting no simply because of the applicants grammar, no one will ever bash anybody for minor grammar mistakes. Even the staff make loads of mistakes. However, if the application is full grammatical errors, that is a sign of bad english speaking skills. This is a major issue because as a mod, you will have to deal with players in english. Not only players that speak english quite well, but also players who don't speak english that well. And to be able to understand players with bad english, you have to be pretty good at speaking and writing the language yourself. I therefore think that voting no based on bad english is a perfectly valid reason.

 

And also, I can vote no if I want without you ranting about it. The poll is almost ignored when the staff reviews the applications.

 

Do your best and forget the rest. People are not going to always support what you decided to do in life and you will here more "no's" than "yes" answers. That said, keep doing what you want to do.

Point of this: Don't let others tell you what to do. Sometimes you have to go against the grain to be great.

Deep Thoughts By The Evil Overlord

 

I'm not going to list evey possible reason for me to vote no. I've already listed one very good reason for voting no above. And how is voting no for whatever reason selfish of me?? I'm only giving the applicant MY HONEST OPINION. Isn't that exactly what you wanted? Just because I'm giving my honest, fair and unbiased opinion does not neccisarily mean that I'm going to be voting yes.

 

I'm extremely honest when it comes to this, I love Brawl, and I want it to benefit from people. I will only '+1/+0/-1/' honestly because I want to try to HELP the community in things like this.

 

You sure you aren't mistaking honesty for selfishness?

 

Ahhhh you must have misunderstood me lol. I didn't mean that I'm going to be voting no just because I feel like it. I said that I can vote no if thats my opinion on if the person should be mod or not, and it doesn't matter that much anyways as the poll has next to none influence on the admins' decision. I hope this cleared it up for you mate