12-23-2022, 09:47 PM
(12-23-2022, 08:10 PM)Jammin Wrote: I'm not sure you'd like being a staff member, and I'm not sure you have the best temperament to be oneI've staffed in similar positions before, and I enjoyed the experience and have already learned some important lessons and made the basic mistakes that one might expect and learned from them. That's not to say I'll never make mistakes or that I'll always have the perfect answer, but I'm not applying haphazardly; I've had experience with this, I've learned what to watch out for and how to conduct myself when staffing, and I overall felt and feel that it's a good fit for me.
I do want to acknowledge that you are willing to step up and help, as this is what your third app now? I appreciate you wanting to help. But I think it's best that you simply enjoy the game for now. If no staff are on and minge's are about, that's a good opportunity to prove yourself as a capable staff member via evidence collection and ban request making.
I like being able to directly help and resolve issues as they're happening, without relying only on action to be taken retroactively. I agree that ban requests are one way to help out, and I have and do look to collect evidence to make or contribute to them when the need arises, but they don't do much in the moment. Of course there will still be issues that are too big for just me to handle, but there are often times when I know I would have been able to handle an issue and prevented people's fun from being ruined when there were no other staff available to do so, or times when staff were overwhelmed with many issues happening at once that I could have helped handle.
I've mentioned it before in a past thread, but there have been plenty of times when I could have very well blown up and escalated the situation with people antagonizing me or egging me on or things that I just didn't like, and a younger me maybe would have, but I was able to avoid major conflict without much issue in spite of what one might expect from how some people describe me. There have been two notable incidents in the past that were to some degree exceptions to this, both of which I'm sure are known, and both of which were isolated incidents which were ultimately resolved and learned from. I'm far from perfect, but real substantial conflicts have been few and far between, and we've seen that staff can still be accepted and capable despite their past or current mistakes.
I know I won't change your opinion with just this post, I know there is still room for improvement, and I appreciate your insight, but I feel that I'm capable of more than some give me credit for, and ultimately I'm hoping to be able to prove that.