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+1

Tea has been around long enough to know the rules.

[Misstie6731]

no -1

too shit-posty

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Also this comment is super uncomfy to make on the forums. there are children here.. too overly sexual 

This is very understandable Misstie6731.
Though the time stamp made this very misleading. Seems to be a reoccurring theme.
I spent my entire break looking for this post, thinking it was made today. Haha, silly me.

Maybe next time we can put some context,,,,
Not to take away from your point. Very valid. 
Thank you

Sorry, I couldn't remember the post either, I just used the screenshot I had from when they posted it.

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But to continue on, this behavior happened less than 2 months ago. Since they then continuously shit post and to be honest as someone who doesn't know tea, I can never tell if they are posting something to be genuine or shitposty.

Even though it is "just trusted" or whatever I think you need a little longer to show that you can actually take things seriously. I think it would make it confusing to have a staff member that people have a hard time reading if that makes sense.

[Ryan]

Honestly, I have some of the same concerns as chapman. I dont know if I could 100% trust you to be impartial, but at the same time, there hasnt been any chance for you to prove yourself because you havent held a position of power. I would like to see you not get involved in as many arguments/fanning the flames of existing ones, tho.

I enjoy playing with you and I usually have a good time with you on server, but I would like to see you approach things a little more seriously if you are intent on representing the community. To the best of my recollection, you dont RDM, you dont break the rules, and you're usually fun to play with. I would just like to see some of that behavior cut back a little bit before I could support this app.

[Foxka]

I am not going to support this app at this time. There are a few reasons for this, and I would be happy to dm you privately about it but it basically goes: you make me very uncomfortable and make sexually charged comments frequently, as well as generally being someone that is not welcoming to newcomers in the community. I have no doubt in my mind you are able to take things seriously, but it's when you aren't serious that makes several of these red flags and behavior issues readily apparent.

-1 from me.

[PandaInPants]

I do not know Tea that well, but when I first met them I thought they were a troll. When I was staffing I remember watching their rdm and chat messages a lot because they were concerning and haven't paid much attention otherwise. I think I will have to -1 because of the actions I had witnessed serverside.

[chapman]

chapman
Hi! These are all valid concerns, and I can say that I will be as unbiased as possible. On the forums, I tend to respond to what everyone else is responding to, so it would make sense that some of my dinklefriends responded to them too. While they may say similar things, I can assure you that I say what I honestly believe. I certainly take some threads less seriously than others, but who doesn't? Just as there are times to be serious, there are times not to be serious. Taking one to be the other can cause more harm than good. I hope that satisfactorily answers your questions!

Thank you for taking the time to respond to me!

I think overall I like how you've stated your response. If this one is denied, I think you should apply again and work on things that people like Ryan (who says similar concerns that I had but actually has played on server with you where I've been in one discord call with you and coco for like 5 minutes so my experience with you is limited) have pointed out and I think you could be a good fit for the team. 


As for my opinion, your answer satisfied my concern so I will support this app. Best of luck to you on your endeavors!

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I ain’t reading all that +0.75

you're really funny pal, I will end you like Messi did Ronaldo.

[Jammin]

Disclaimer, i didn't do any research into the following, and may have missed something. Please don't ping me on discord with things I missed, because my overwhelming emotion towards this community is apathy.

I'm going to remain without a vote, simply because I haven't played in such a long time, and probably won't for a long time. Because of this, I have no way to know whether your historically annoying trolling, trolling that was really unfunny and just ruined the community experience for those around you, has ceased since your return to the community.
I know of your behavior well enough to give a past perspective on your activities, and I can vouch that there really are no outside issues, that I know of, outside of your massive trolling history. Despite having differing opinions on recent, well, 'happenings' in the community, I didn't see any comments of actual malice/anything outside of opinions I disagreed with - none of which I feel should preclude you from staffing.
To summarize the above, other than trolling, I don't have any evidence/examples of behavior of concern. With all due respect to the recent forum post concern, I feel that is reaching a bit to bring that one comment up. It isn't exactly 'good' but i've seen a hell of a lot worse from staff here.

All of that aside, I feel your trolling alone is enough to disqualify you from staffing, should the trolling of the past continue to be active. There's fun trolling, like the occasional funny kill with the M16 or planting a body bomb in a crowd, then there's fun ruining trolling and frustrating trolling, such as borderline teaming and being a dick in general.
I'll provide some examples of historical occurrences that would discourage my support:
1. Past trolling of PropHunt: In general you were rude and disrespectful to the PropHunt staff team in discord - to the point that discord staff had permanently restricted you from the prophunt channel prior to me taking on the discord admin role in 2021. When you requested another chance, I removed the PH chat restriction, only for you to openly criticize the PH staff team because they weren't able to respond to a staff ping. Your incitement of drama on numerous occasions within that channel was nothing short of frustrating to the PH staff team as well as my discord staff team during that time, and you ended up getting your restriction of PH readded. You had similar behavior in Murder, including using the murder chat to get unrestricted from DR by pinging me, rather than DMing me or using the systems in place at the time.
2. Past trolling in TTT: TTT is effectively mafia with guns, right? AmongUs with more skill than just a kill button. There's a complex strategy involved that makes the game more interesting to some than a simple FPS. Actions to subvert the game mechanics can really ruin the gaming experience for some players, and I see ruining the gaming experience of other players as a negative factor in the consideration for becoming a staff member. A specific interaction I had with you recently involved your desire to break the traitor tester, move a portable tester out of bounds, and then cry about getting killed for it. If you don't want to traitor test then don't test, but going out of your way to assist the other team in completing their objective is trolling at best and borderline teaming at worse. Sure, we don't consider that a rule violation, but subverting the objective of the game isn't what i'd expect from a staff member.
Also, if you are going to troll by doing KOSable things, don't cry about it to the person who kills you for doing it. DMing me to "get some bitches" because you couldn't handle the consequences of your own actions kinda kills the vibe a bit. Sure, these are light examples and not really warnable offenses, but also not exactly representative of what the staff community of TTT would want. It's the principle of the thing.
3. Ability to staff: There's no evidence, so far as I can tell, that you even know how to enforce the rules, punishments, etc. There are no ban requests, legitimate staff pings, nor Dm reports that I can see. The only report i've ever found you to file is here - which was a fraudulent staff abuse report that you refused to provide evidence for. There's no evidence that you have the ability to capture/record video, capture screen evidence, file ban requests/abuse reports, and report/log evidence as necessary. The most you'd be useful for is RDM reports, which you indicated is the main reason you wanted to become staff, but trusted has more responsibility than that. There's an expectation that as a staff member, you would actually staff when online. There's not a shred of evidence that i've found that you've ever contributed to the staff team anything other than headaches.

To be clear - I'm not voting, and these opinions should be taken with a grain of salt as I haven't played with Tea since like January of this year (when the traitor tester incident happened). But, I will hope that the TTT admin team really considers all the ramifications of allowing someone with this well established history of trolling access to the entire punishment history of various persons available in the staff discord.

I want to end this on a positive note, as I want to be objective as much as I can be. Some things i'd note about tea:
- Tea is active on the server and generally promotes a fun atmosphere
- Tea is a longstanding Dinks community member who has a lengthy and established presence here
- Tea's trolling is generally harmless at best and annoying at worst. I haven't seen any time where the trolling turned into targeting/harassment (though i didn't look that hard)
- Tea appears to be somewhat serious about joining staff, given that they filled out the TTT scenarios and made a seemingly serious application
- Tea gave a reasonable reason for wanting to join (to handle RDM reports when staff offline) and likely knows the rules well
- Tea has no problem with doing God's work in RDMing admins currently on the server

I wish you the best of luck with this application, Tea.

[Dildo Shwaggins]

-1 for now, for reasons stated by Foxka and Pandainpants and my own personal concern. You’ve been around the community a long time even with the hiatus and I’ve never seen you have an issue with how the game works and the rules as a whole. But I do think you need to carry yourself in a way to be taken more seriously to be more effective as staff. For the sexual comments mentioned, if it is something frequent enough to make someone uncomfortable even if the intent is joking, that is something you should probably hold off on. That doesn’t mean no jokes ever again, just more restraint. Which kinda ties into my next thing of it can be blurred lines to what you say that is serious and is a joke so it’s hard to judge how you would really handle something serious based on that. Work on those things and keep up the good game knowledge.

[Brahma]

Hello Tea!
I'm excited to see another long term member of the community applying to join the staff team!

I have 2 big concerns that stop me from +1 your app.

First one:

When staffing you'll have to descalate situations where members might be flaming or insulting each other, you'll have to calm them down or put an end to it, now my issue is that judging from past experiences you don't tend to exactly calm down people more like egging them on or adding fuel to the fire.

Second one:

While staffing you'll have to interact and talk with other members of the staff team, which in itself isn't something hard or bad but my concern is that you have been vocal about disliking some individuals from the current staff team and that in turn might end up influencing your ability to staff unbias and fairly when those people are on, leading to debates/arguments about punishment or decisions made, because of the dislike you hold for them.

[Ryan]

- Tea has no problem with doing God's work in RDMing admins currently on the server

Dammit I might have to support the app now