roles of staff members (what you signed up for)

I’m not here to speak for any other staff members, just my self. My self, I’m a high school student, I play soccer all over the west coast of the US to be seen by collage scouts and get into collage, I volunteer 4+ hrs evey week because volunteering looks good on collage applications, I have resolved the most reports here on brawl 2 (maybe 3 I don’t remember) months in a row.

I don’t think that’s a “stupid argument” also who said I wasn’t doing my job properly? I always have the required amount of playing time each month, I am active on the forums, and am active on discord... and if I’m not mistaken, aren’t those he requirements to become staff? I would also like to state that I did add at the bottom of my staff application that I was part of a time consuming soccer club and I was accepted regardless.

Lastly, I’m not doing this for my self, volunteering is doing something you enjoy while helping others out. *key word helping* others in this case are the community.

 

Just commenting on the points about reports. They are a great thing to do when you cannot get online ingame. People are still able to report without staff being on, and it's great that the staff team keeps on top of these reports and resolve them (relatively) quickly. I don't see anything wrong with resolving reports, just as long as they don't become a substitute for in game moderating. Them being easy or not is irrelevant imo, but there needs to be a balance between those and in game reports imo - they shouldn't be used to mask prolonged inactivity.

 

You claim that you don't have the information about his activity, yet you are making all of these claims against certain staff members about their activity. That doesn't seem fair at all to me when not all the information is known. I'm not disagreeing nor agreeing with you, as I don't know what the facts prove, but making these claims is not ok imo.

 

They're close to accurate

 

Well, I've never been one to fake things or say something to sound good, but you can believe what you want. Im not really saying anything to either side of the situation anyways - just saying that the specific information about a mods activity is hidden from the community, so I don't think its fair to make claims against them. You could be right or wrong, but there isn't any data backing you up at this point which is why I decided to comment. If what you are saying is actually true, then I do think that action should be taken to address the issue. I definitely think the staff team could be handled a little more strict, just to improve the quality of moderating and increase efficiency.

 

How do you know your claims are close to the truth? You said your self that you don’t have access the necessary documents but you can asume based on your bias. Nothing wrong with that, your entitled to your own opinion but you are now taking your false claims and considering them truth based on what confirmation?

 

I have no information on this subject other than my own observations, so please don't take this post to mean that I understand the situation perfectly. I understand that this post may be considered unfounded with new changes to the staff team!

From what I have seen, and I am sorry if I am beating a dead horse, the staff team is lacking two qualities, consistency and maturity. I'll start with consistency. I have heard this said by many people that the amount of time it takes for staff applications to be accepted or rejected is quite a long time. I am sure the problem will become better with the new admins, but I believe there should be a limit to how long an application should remain under review. Perhaps the max time is 2-3 weeks, instead of being measured in months.

Another area of consistency that needs work is simply rules for the staff themselves, and for them to be enforced. I do not mean that the staff team is lacking rules but either certain rules are not being enforced, but they have never been implemented. First and for most, staff should NOT be allowed to speak out against the staff as a whole. This was an issue a while back, and I am not sure if it still is a problem, but the staff team was showing their discontent to the general player base. Transparency is generally a good thing, however not to that degree or level. If a staff member has an issue they need to take it up with their peers and superiors, and not voice their discontent to the players. Higher up staff especially need to remain consistent when dealing with other staff members, which means listening and taking action within a reasonable period of time.
Finally, in terms of consistency, staff should have a time limit to how long they remain inactive. Perhaps they can get a larger time allotment if they inform their superiors to their specific circumstance, but a large amount of inactive staff looks really really bad.

My last point won't be detailed as I think it is pretty self-explanatory. If a staff member is unwilling to resign due to their inactivity, then they were never mature enough to become a staff member. I believe the information on what a staff member does is rather vague and should have more detail for possible applicants, and should be stressed that the purpose of being a staff member is primarily volunteer work. There are perks I am sure, but if a person goes through the application process with misguided notions on the purpose of staff, then they will not be suitable staff members.

Alright, thanks for reading

 

cmonBruh if they all resigned if they didnt have the time brawl wouldnt have any staff members because nobody with an understanding of the importance of a volunteer minecraft position is gonna dedicate their time to a volunteer minecraft position

 

Sort of off topic to continue this, but I just want to give my response to this anyways as I think it's important / I want to make my intentions clear.

The community has every right to believe I am "faking" my personality / change rn, I know, I have changed a lot in the past few months rather drastically. Truth is, believe it or not, I am changing because I want to, not because I want staff or anything else. I truly just want to enjoy my time here, as Brawl has been a great part of my life and I want to keep that part (or at least leave on a positive note when I am ready to fully move on). I put my mind to it and ended some factors that contributed to my behaviour and tried to fix my personal issues and show them on discord during my ban time so I could hopefully get unbanned and recreate my presence in the community in a more positive way. If I get back on the staff team, great, if not, then that's ok and I will be happy to play as just a player. Wanting power has nothing to do with it either, I just genuinely enjoyed being staff / talking to people / having projects / goals to work on. But again, believe as you will and hopefully I can convince the people who do think this way of me that I am being honest about my current behaviour and whatnot.

 

then they resign leaving.... nobody to moderate the server?

i dont see what everyones point is here. these people are volunteers. if they resign as you say then everyone would complain even more about how there are no staff members

if everyone here wants staff to be better then apply for staff yourself

 

Yikes... fueling a conversation off a “they’re close to accurate.” Is not a good pivot point. But you do you...

Anyway getting back on topic, the staff team has improved since this thread was created so I would say the upper staff team is making a turn in the right direction.

 

yes but there arent enough jmods that care enough about their volunteer position to actively moderate the server