Should TS be a Staff Requirement, or Not

If the applicant is that nervous about talking or cannot even talk to the people who are interviewing them for a staff position for some technical reason isn't that a reason that they should not be accepted as staff? Availability matters, that's why the TS requirement is a thing. It makes sense for there to be multiple channels by which staff can be contacted (in game, forums, and TS) because they're the people whose jobs are literally to moderate the community and take care of whatever issues or drama occurs (unless it needs to be referred to higher staff). TS is free (no installer is necessary either), relatively easy to use, and apparently has some advantages over Discord. So if an applicant cannot dedicate some time to at least being available on all three of those channels, including TS, then they probably should not even be applying for a position that they cannot meet all the responsibilities for.

 

You have to type @Canoodle to get her attention.

 

I want staff in game for both Warz and War.

I don't think it should be requirement.

My view point is that I want players and mods in game vs being on teamspeak.

TS is nice but I don't think the majority of players use this.

Therefore, I think having TS as a requirement for Mod excludes players who don't use it from the Mod talent pool. Case in point: @DarkTitan_ is qualified to be a great mod but is excluded because he doesn't use TS.

Evil has spoken

 

Being "nervous" is not a reason to skip out on an interview. And yes, being either unwilling or unable to fulfill every requirement of staff to a reasonable degree indicates that an applicant probably should not be applying for staff.

 

The whole point of this thread is not that they're nervous or not, just not doing the interview on TS.

 

That's silly.

 

Stop being silly @TheguynamedToby
But I do see you're logic, just it's not the main point of the topic.

 

I think TS should be a requirement for the same reasons that @Mario (and others) have already given. It's a free client that requires no installation and it's not particularly difficult to use (I have used TeamSpeak many times before). Just my opinion, but if someone who is applying to be staff cannot meet the requirement of at least being on TeamSpeak and doing a voice interview to answer questions for a job that they're applying for then that's not a very good reason to get rid of the requirement. Dozens of staff members have been accepted by simply pledging to be on TS more often in the future (starting with an interview). I don't see where the big problem is with the requirement other than that requiring TS activity seems somewhat pointless because quite a few people in the forums community do not use it.

 

DarkTitan_ didn't get to trial because he failed the interview, not because he didn't have TS. Just putting it out here.

 

You ruined his inspirational speech :v

 

Use it for video skypes

 

Henis blinked me and Gritzl, he constantly flames and talks ****. He was a good mod but his maturity has gone down the drain. I'd apply but my bad rep effects that, I've been a mod on McPvP (was) for 3 months and an admin on FrostHCF (which is now down). Bad reputation is everything on here and even if they need staff they wait 6 months for someone to come screw it all up.

 

So.

Not sure if TS is really a "requirement" to be staff. To become staff, yes, but after that there is absolutely ZERO enforcement regarding activity on TS. The only time you're really required to show up there is if upper staff needs to physically talk to you about something, or if there's a staff meeting (which hasn't happened since 2015). Believe me, I personally logged on to teamspeak about 5 times this year (during the time I was mod) with no comments whatsoever. I think it should be a requirement to know how to get on (and actually get on) when needed, but that's about it. That fact also applies to whatever platform brawl decides to use, whether it be TS/Discord.

 

Staff aren't active on ts anyway so i mean ;L. Applicants are active for the time before and during their application being up. After about a month of them being accepted, their activity decreases...

 

I highly disagree with this. Wario is constantly on ts and he was promoted to moderater a long time ago. TheMafias is on TS a lot, and so are the majority of Smods.
TS should be a requirement, because people need to be able to talk in person, staff needs to know how a person will react when they are faced with a situation. Not have answers given to them a week after the have the question. If our staff waited over a week for every question or react to a /report several hours later,(like they would be able to if they were given an interview to type out and turn in) brawl would be a very bad server to play on. The purpose of having TS activity as a requirement is so that the current staff can evaluate the maturity and the reactions of the applicants under certain situations. If TS was removed from requirements the staff really wouldn't have any idea what kind of person the players they promote to jmod are. People are more likely to act like themselves when they are speaking over a microphone then when they are typing on a computer.

 

One of the issues I have with TS is that I live in Germany. There are literally no ods online when I get banned or whatever, and I then have to help the poor person in the support channel instead of the person appointed to it.
TS also causes serious internet lag for me, and I have to accept 200-300ms instead of my normal 140 when playing BrawlHG.

 

What about moving to discord