[EpicGuy]

 Just to remind people I am friends with brahma when i named this brahma hate thread. I make jokes and im sarcastic. I dont care if i get mod back or if im put down to trusted. I leave that to the admins. But im not demanding the role. Sorry for the confusion. I forget that a large amount of the forums is not part of the ttt community that I interact with and does not understand my jokes or attempts to be facetious.
This is a volunteer free labor position btw. Just to remind you. This is not me quitting a real job where I was paid a salary and then asking to come back because i miss the pay. This is i felt comfortable not volunteering for a while and now I want to volunteer again so I am not going to plead/beg/grovel for a role.
I have answered your 2nd paragraph multiple times idk how else you guys want me to respond? I didnt want to staff, i wanted a break, i dont like the culture, but i still play and deal with the shitty server culture anyway so I want to be able to help rather than just sit and take random abuse when no one can get on. I don't have a vendetta I just have played a lot recently with lots of annoying trolls on. Others in this situation are told "apply for staff" and thats what im doing.

• I am well aware that the title of this thread was a joke. That's why I didn't mention the title of the thread in the things that I quoted from you
  
• I also make jokes and am sarcastic. This may be shocking, but I have zero issue with jokes or sarcasm
  
• You do care, at least a little, if you get Mod or Trusted, otherwise you wouldn't have said in the original post "gimme mod back," joke or not
  
• If you were being facetious about the "gimme mod back" line, you'll have to forgive me, and everyone else who took "gimme mod back" as you wanting your role as Moderator back, for taking the words that you typed, with very little hints of sarcasm or facetiousness, at face value
  
• You are entirely correct. This is a volunteer position (and a lame one at that). You should not have to beg, plead, or grovel for a volunteer position on a GMod server. However, surely you can see how "gimme mod back" looks like you are trying to circumvent the line of progression and looks like you're trying to hop right back to Moderator after you gave up the role
  
• It's very admirable that you see things wrong with the server and want to address them as a staff member. The point of that paragraph wasn't saying that you can't or shouldn't staff. The point of that paragraph is to bring up the fact that after a short break where you were burned out, and where you will be actively working on a staff team that you say has a culture that is less than desirable, you are ready to come back and volunteer your time and effort to something that burned you out a short time ago. If that's something you see yourself doing and want to do, more (Trusted) power to you
  
• I fully support you applying for staff. That is the correct thing to do and I am not arguing against you being a staff member at all. My point of concern was the rank that you would be returning to
  

Finally (and I don't want to derail this application so I'll try to keep this short), I want to address this point of contention that is apparently shocking and weird. Yes, I treat a stupid GMod community, and my role in the community, professionally. Can that be seen as embarrassing and cringe? You're darn tootin'. But do you know what has served me well in the course of my almost 10 year staffing career on this server? Treating this volunteer position professionally. So am I going to continue holding myself to a professional standard? Yes. Am I going to waste my time and energy attempting to hold others to a professional standard in a community for a 20 year old mod of a mod, knowing that very few people are going to? Yes. Do you have to hold yourself to the same standard? Absolutely not. The beauty of the Internet is that you can say and do whatever you want. And that is why I love the Internet.