Accepted TheTrogs' KitBrawl JMOD Application

TheTrogs’ (KitPVP) Junior Moderator Application

Please note that I have recycled a few answers from my past application, because I have the same answer to some of these questions, and/or nothing has changed since my most recent application.​

What is your in-game name? - TheTrogs



Also, I have changed my name multiple times in the past, I will list them below:

1) slinkypineapples (Original Name)
2) SlinkyPineapples - 3/2/2015
3) Barreted - 9/28/2015
4) I_Wear_Trogs - 4/16/2016
5) TheTrogs - 6/16/2016

Also I have an alt account named Kekable, I will include the name history for that account below as well:

1) SlinkyPineapples (Original Name)
2) Troggo - 6/27/2016
3) Kekable - 9/2/2016

These are the only accounts I have ever personally owned.
Below I will leave links to their NameMC accounts if you want to check that out.

TheTrogs
Kekable

Is your Minecraft account secured and migrated? - My account is and has been migrated for over four years. My password is changed frequently to reduce the chance of my account possibly being hacked.

How old are you? - I am 15 years old.

What time zone are you in? - I am in the Eastern Standard Timezone. (EST)

Are you multilingual? Can you speak multiple languages? - I can only speak English fluently, but I am currently studying Latin in school.

What is your experience and knowledge of Brawl? - Around mid 2012 I discovered MC-War from a YouTube video. I tried it out, and I quickly became hooked. I no-lifed the game quite a bit and quickly became level 30+. At this time, very few people were level 30+, so I had sort of a respect from other players in-game. I later discovered MC-WarZ through Brawl, and I became addicted fast. I remember sitting at my computer, refreshing my MineCraft servers, waiting for a spot to open up on WarZ 1, I am getting nostalgic just writing this… anyways:
I am also very knowledgeable of Brawl, mainly how things work on this server. I am pretty close to the community, so I usually know things when others do.
I am also familiar with some of the commands that staff members use regularly:

/prune - clears chat. Would be used if someone advertised a server or website, or a bad link. Would be used if someone broadcasted a bad glitch, such as an economy glitch or a game-breaking glitch. Would be used if someone said something very rude or malicious, such as a very bad death threat or death wish. Would be used if someone posted someones DOX (personal details in chat). JMOD+

/poof - basically /v or /vanish, hides you completely from the non-staff players view, so you can go and spectate an accused hacker or glitcher. Would most commonly be used if I saw a report in chat, and had to go spectate a player. MOD+

/mute [player_name] [time] [reason] vanilla mute, used to make a player unable to talk in global chat for a certain period of time. Would be used accordingly depending on the offense. Not going to go in depth on all examples this could be used in, as there are many ways to violate chat rules. Also noteable to mention that JMODS can only mute for a maximum of 1 hour and I understand this. JMOD+

/kick [player_name] [time] [reason] just a vanilla kick from the server, player can join back if there is no time limit on the kick. Noteable to mention that JMODS can only kick for 1 hour maximum and I understand this. JMODS+

/ban (or /tempban) [player_name] [reason] a vanilla ban from the server, would most commonly be used to punish a player hacking, making DDoS or DOX threats, or glitching.

These are just the main commands I know and am listing in detail, but there are other commands I am aware of, such as

/fp (to change a map if glitched)
/sj (join a player if they are online)
/qr (quickly respond to a player breaking chat rules)

What is your experience with moderating servers, if any? - Over my years on Minecraft, I have moderated two major servers, and done smaller things on more private servers with friends in the community. I will give a more detailed list of my experience of moderating below:

GunZ: A server created by my friends paparoach183, and Google4ever, this was a server based off the very popular warZ. It was a practice server, where we had custom guns, custom maps, and a custom texture pack. I was a moderator on this server, mainly catching hackers and keeping the chat clean. At the time my in game name was slinkypineapples. I was not the most knowledgeable of Minecraft servers at this time, but I knew the basics and when I was online, I was able to keep things under control.

HazeHQ: This was a server also based off of WarZ, and was a remake of the old server known as W33D KITS. This server was owned by Drenny, and had a very stable player base of around 20+ players at a time. I was a moderator on this server and I kept my position until Drenny decided to take the server down, which was a few months into its existence. At this time my in-game name was Barreted, and some of you reading this may remember me. I will be honest, I no-lifed this server a lot of the time, staying up late on school nights just to catch hackers. I caught hundreds of hackers on this server, and it was not even a big community. I am not sure why, but I just find it fun sitting in /v (/poof) and catching hackers.

Smaller Servers: Over the past few months, I have been a part of smaller servers with friends. I have received /op and a certain staff ranks, which I have kept because I am quite trusted with them. Also, recently I was staff on a small Wild West practice server that has had over 230 people join it!

How has this helped me though?
With all of my knowledge and experience, of staffing a server, I have learned quite a bit about basic commands used as a staff member, standard procedures for dealing with a trouble maker, and spotting/identifying hacked clients.

Why do you want to become a moderator on Brawl? - As weird as it may sound, I genuinely enjoy moderating servers (banning hackers, muting chat rule-breakers, keeping communitiy friendly, helping new players, etc). Besides that however, I love Brawl, and I want to help it as much as I can. I sincerely care about this server, and I want to do my part to keep the community friendly. Also I must touch upon something; that being the KitPVP community. In my opinion, it has the worst community on Brawl (not to make it sound like a bad place), (and obviously there are some nice people that I am friends with on KitPvP), but for the most part, it is full of hackers and toxic players in chat. My goal, if I am promoted to staff, would be to clean that community up nicely, make KitPVP a fun server for players to work on their PvP skills.

Have you ever used a hacked client before? - Unfortunately, I have to say that I have used a hacked client in the past. I was banned a little over two years ago on Brawl for forcefield hacks. However, that was the last time that I have ever used a hacked client on Brawl. I have since used a few hacked clients on private single player worlds, to aid my full understanding of hacks, which in turn will help me record and report hackers much more efficiently.

Have you ever been punished (banned, kicked, muted, etc) on a public Minecraft server? If so, why?
I have been banned on minecraft servers on 2 separate occasions, will go more in depth on the bans below.

Spoiler: 1st (legitimate) Ban:

The first time I was ever banned, was on Brawl. This was over 2 years ago, and I was using a hacked client. I was banned for forcefield. I deeply regret hacking, but I can't change my past. Also, in a way I guess it has helped me, seeing as how I have never used a hacked client on any multiplayer server ever again since this ban.

Spoiler: 2nd (false) Ban:

2nd (false) Ban: Lastly, my most recent ban, was on Brawl again. I was banned for macros whilst playing on WarZ practice server, 19. I appealed this ban however, and provided somewhat proof that I had not been using macros. I had some staff members vouch for me, and I was quickly unbanned. Also I would like to state that I have never in my life owned a razer mouse, or keyboard, or any piece of equipment that can be used to give me an unfair advantage in my game. Ever.

Besides those 2 bans, I have never been banned on a public Minecraft server.

I also have some mutes on Brawl that I would like to address.

Spoiler: Recent mute for: Caps

So, the other day, I decided to do a huge drop party on wild west, because there was a larger amount of players on there, than there usually was. In total, I gave out around 750,000 gold worth of items, and money in the drop party. It was a drop party available to the whole server, and because this was so, I decided to say some things in all caps to get the servers attention, and because I was excited for the 'party' (I know I shouldn't have). Then because I said a few things in caps, someone decided to chatreport me. and I got muted.

I also made a thread about the drop party, in which I have linked here.

Also I will include a picture of around 20 people that came around for my drop party, enjoyed it, and thanked me for having it linked here.

Spoiler: Old Death Wish

Okay, now my death wish from a while ago is where a lot of -1's came from on my last application, so I will do my best to explain how I got this mute. Also I would like to say that I am not at all the kind of person that would ever make a legitimate death wish, or encourage suicide. That kind of stuff is not funny. At all.
Ok now to explain this:

I was in a private build world, with a couple of my friends (mechanic39, FabulousZack). We were just messing around building random stuff, and all the while we were talking on TeamSpeak. We were all laughing together, messing around with some weird world edit commands, when one of the friends asked for the command for setting a //sphere. Stupidly, not even sure why I did this, but in the local chat I typed ./kys insinuating that that was the command for //sphere. In turn I (deservingly) got muted. Honestly I have no idea why I joked around like that, but at least I have since learned from this that even if I am completely kidding around with friends, saying things like that are never funny.


I regret my actions completely, and I wish I could go back and change what I did, but unfortunately I just can’t..

What do you consider your greatest strength? - To be honest, I feel like I have a few good strengths that would make me a good moderator. First of all, my activity on Brawl is very strong, I spend countless hours every week on Brawl's servers, TeamSpeak, and Forums, and Slack. Another strength I have is that I consider myself a very friendly person, and I can be very understanding of someone's problems. Lastly, I am very good at spotting someone when they are hacking. I have spent first hand time messing around with hacked clients in single player worlds to increase my knowledge of hacks. I also play on KitPVP a lot, thus this application, and as you all know, a lot of hackers seem to traffic towards KitPVP.

What do you consider your greatest weakness? - I think that my main problem is that I often find myself with a tendency to AFK in game or on TeamSpeak when I am not playing. This could obviously bring up issues if I became staff, because people on Teamspeak would message me with a question or complaint and I would not be able to help them. This would also be an issue in game, because my “playtime hours” for staff statistics would not be 100% accurate, however if I do get staff I will do my best to not AFK.

Which Brawl server(s) are you most active on? - I spend the majority of my time on KitPVP recording and reporting hackers, (I have over 3,800 kills on here, at the time of posting this) I also spend time on Wild West (I am a sheriff on there), and occasionally MC-War. (I am level 91 on there).

How many Brawl staff applications have you made in the past? - I have applied twice in the past.

What is the date of the last application you submitted? - September 13th, 2016 (9/13/16)

Do you have TeamSpeak? I do, and I am very actively going around in public channels talking to people. Also, when I can I try to help people in the support needed channel, but often they don’t want help from a non-staff member.

Anything else you would like to state? - I am always able to record videos because I always have one of my two recording softwares open; OBS or Bandicam. This means that as a JMOD, I will try to punish hackers, by kicking them for an hour, if I can get sufficient evidence of them hacking. Then I would bring the evidence to a mod+ to ban the user.


Thank you for reading!
-TheTrogs

 

Thank you RMST, your +1 means a lot!

 

Thank you very much SoCool!

 

Thanks for the response Dark!
and yeah, I am sure I could have still gotten people to see my messages in chat without using caps, lesson learned!

 

Thanks so much aGuy!

 

Thanks for the +1 Matty, it means a lot!

 

Okay, I will continue to work on my maturity. Thank you for the response nonetheless.

Thanks DeKrah!

 

Thanks so much soulless!

 

Thank you very much Snail!

 

Thanks so much ZombieKat!