[TDawg4]

A question from the response you have here- this is for a hypothetical situation. As staff, if one of your friends was being weird or messing with someone who isn’t your friend and the way they are doing so violates rules, would you be willing to put your foot down against your friend if it’s what was necessary to de-escalate a situation and enforce the rules?

This is something I have wanted to be better at doing as I typically have added leeway (in my head) to people if they show good qualities or help the server and then have to push back against them as they get more comfortable pushing these line and have had to learn to stop giving leeway to people because of it. I also am lucky to surround myself *mostly with people who are not doing weird things or breaking rules. I have regretted times like when guts was around I would give them too many chances because I thought they were kinda funny, or with someone like grasse I tried to give them excuses for a bit because they helped me a few times with trolls and cheaters. I have also acted on a situation specifically against Damien when he and a group were saying and doing things that were trolly for a few days.


@TDawg4 to not flood with lots of separate posts, when I first resigned it was genuinely I had gotten tired of a lot of the talking and we had a lot of staff who I thought could handle everything so I thought I could resign and play as a player without issue and things could be handled easily. Again I thought I wanted a long gmod break, but I forgot I like to use gmod as a vibe and chat tool. It just kinda lined up that a lot of other people resigned and more drama came. Not enough has changed really for me to think the staffing culture has improved significantly, not flaming those of the current staff team I trust, but I just think you guys need help. I have seen a lot more people talk about issues with things happening and summer did start with more weirdos hopping on and being really gross and crossing some serious lines that the current staff team has not been keeping up with or is not on enough to deal with. The main reason I asked for mod in this post is because trusted can't really do shit against anyone. anyone can rejoin after a kick and it makes staffing a lot more complicated because you have to sit and just spam kick/gag/mute them until someone can get on to help which playing late nights does not happen very often and I was a young whippersnapper of trusted and tmod for a long time.

idk if I ever said much, but I was originally not planning to go above trusted I didn't want ANY responsibility besides reports really cause I liked the menus. Its my want to for people to be able to simply enjoy themselves that makes me put in more work.

Most of this feels pretty valid to me. I guess I am biased now, but I was tmod for a longggggg time. I pretty rarely got the opportunity to karma ban as any person unhinged enough left after a gag/mute and a slay or two. I do agree that we need more active playing staff at least for reports. This is some part of why I am supportive of you for trusted.