Accepted LemonCake's Moderator Application

[LemonCake]

Username: LemonCake

Name
LemonCake

Your Age
28

Do you have at least 3 days cumulative days of playtime on Blackwonder servers in the last year? Yes

Have you been punished in the last 60 days? No

Have you had an application declined in the last 90 days? No

Do you have a microphone? Yes

Have you read the forum guide on how to apply? Yes

If you have ever played on a Blackwonder server, you will have had a user profile automatically generated on tfstats.tf. Locate and link your tfstats profile here. 3634647

Location
California, USA

Your SteamID2
STEAM_0:1:33905317

Your DiscordID
epiclemoncake

Have you managed servers previously? Yes

Which servers have you previously managed?
Managed 4 TF2 servers, all of which are now closed. The New Jetpack Server (ranked below coowner), Sulfurous Chain server(root admin), Sleek Gamers servers (multiple iterations and games, basically owned the TF2 branch as the owner gave me full permissions and FTP access), and a random death match server that lasted for about a month. These servers were sporadic but I spent about 6 years in total managing these.

On what servers do you usually play on, and which servers would you like to moderate?
US x1000 highertower (85.117.240.57:27035) specifically, but I do occasionally play on US 2Fort (85.117.240.3:27030) and US Class wars (85.117.240.14:27020). I would not be opposed to moderating all servers, however I do know that certain gamemodes require more specific moderation and I would want to familiarize myself with those servers and usual players before stepping into an administration role.

Why would you like to become a moderator?
Every now and then the x1000 server chat just goes down the wrong path and becomes completely unhinged and very gag/mute worthy. I kind of just want to help clean it up in a timely matter rather than using calladmin or reporting these on discord. If things do go well I wouldn't mind stepping higher up and helping develop the community. Pretty much every server I managed was successful to some degree, and I had genuine fun on all of them. If the situation arises I would be more than willing to do it again.

I have good knowledge of running servers, basic knowledge of mapping, and decent knowledge of sourcemod plugins. I would be comfortable with editting or attempting to fix any of these. I am not familiar with vscript but I do want to learn it as I think it would be very beneficial for people who want to play on listen servers while still having powerful, almost sourcemod level commands, just searching for something to push me to do so.

I've been playing on Blackwonder servers on and off for over 7 years, not really sure where I started though. I know I played on the dm_duel US server a lot back then. I am almost certain I played on a US x100 Orange and a US Uber Upgrades server as well, but I do not see them on TFStats and I do not have their IPs saved.

Do you know or have spoken to any of the current staff members? No

How often do you play TF2?
At least several times a month, I do have 7k hours in TF2 so it has added up. When I do play it is usually between 2pm - 8pm PST, everyday. Sometimes on weekends and Wednesdays I cannot be at my computer though.

Please give us your ideal way of punishing players, specific to the servers you want to moderate
Ideally I would have a 3 strike system, which is a warning, light punishment, then hard punishment.

Warning would consist of text or verbal warnings, making sure the player is responding to chat or voice chat. If for some reason the player is not responding, then I would try a slight punishment, such as a 1 minute temp gag/mute, or a slay, if applicable to the situation.

Light punishment would be a 30 minute gag/mute or kick, relevant to the situation. If a ban is more appropriate than a kick, it would not be longer than 30 minutes. This If the player is committing multiple offenses, a warning for each would be issued and only upped to punishment when that same rule is broken multiple times.

Hard punishment would be gag/mute or ban, time depending on the severity and situation, but a minimum of 1 hour. Ideally most hard punishments would be slightly less than a day to let people cool off. Repeat offenders would get increasingly higher punishments, up to a year before permanent ban,

There are certain situations where these would have to be bypassed. Only when rules have been broken without a doubt in my mind, would I then apply punishment to either control the situation or relieve the server of the problem. These situations could be blatant widespread hate speech in chat or voice chat or blatant hacking or exploiting trying to cause issues.

One thing I thought I should mention is spray management is fairly new to me. I'm not familiar with the commands around it, but I would attempt to follow the same outline I have above. Verbal warning to change spray, short spray ban, then long spray ban. As far as I can see from common spray management plugins on alliedmodders I don't see many of them having temporary spray bans, so maybe just go to full spray ban. Of course I will familiarize myself with relevant moderation commands if I do get accepted.

Is there any other information you would like us to know about?
I attempted to play competitive Battlerite, but the game died out and I was always ranked about 10th in NA, just short of any major tournament relevancy. I did get 10th in the Battlerite Battleroyal Winter Championship though, which was a global tournament.
I've mostly managed TF2 servers, but I have managed or been admin of, several Minecraft servers, several Gmod servers, and two V Rising servers.
I have good knowledge of programming in Java, C++, and Javascript. My sourcepawn experience is fairly limited, mostly just making menus for admins I had on a server.

Are you proficient in languages other than English? No

 

[LemonCake]

Just realized that this got posted when I thought it was an error, then it got duplicated, oops. I would ask to close this one and refer to the other one, as the other one is more polished and older. It is not letting me delete it as far as I can see.

 

[Ash Shaw]

Deleted the dupe post

 

[Ash Shaw]

Plenty sufficient playtime and recently active sessions.
Chatlogs look fine.

No punishments on record.

Hard punishment would be gag/mute or ban, time depending on the severity and situation, but a minimum of 1 hour. Ideally most hard punishments would be slightly less than a day to let people cool off. Repeat offenders would get increasingly higher punishments, up to a year before permanent ban,

For any in-game bans that are applied, we record vod evidence. What software will you be recording with?


Also I will also comment that this applies to inappropriate objectors as well.

One thing I thought I should mention is spray management is fairly new to me.

 

[LemonCake]

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Plenty sufficient playtime and recently active sessions.

To make sure I am not overpromising, especially with the oncoming holiday season, I do maintain that I will be playing for several days out of the month, for 4+ hours at a time. Still plenty to hit the minimum requirement of 72 hours of playtime in a year.

For any in-game bans that are applied, we record vod evidence. What software will you be recording with?

I am familiar with multiple recording software as I did stream for some time, so whatever is most convenient for the time. Most likely Steam Recording since I would have that on most of the time for the playback feature. I doubt I would be banning many people though, but I should have that readily available. I'd assume the same requirements goes for perma mute and gag, in which case I'd assume a recording is necessary for mute and a screenshot for gag.

EDIT: To add to this, I am assuming we post evidence to the forums. I was doing a report on someone micspamming a mildly inappropriate song, had a 60 second 1080p 60fps clip, and it seemed like the forum couldn't take that large of a file. Having a guide on filesize for video evidence would definitely be helpful.
Also upon rereading I kind of just assumed all permanent punishment needed proof, but you did specify bans only. Even still, I'd be sure to be diligent and collect evidence for all permanent actions if I am promoted. I do not know any of the moderation staff, so I believe being very thorough is a good way to prove myself.

Also I will also comment that this applies to inappropriate objectors as well.

Objectors and other flair make sense, but I do believe that is fairly difficult to moderate, as someone could just pick up an inappropriate objector. Issuing a warning or punishment could easily be a false positive unless there are ways to check who owns the objector easily without it being on the ground. Backpacks can be private so I'd assume there is an alternative way to check. Hopefully situations where it is difficult to identify who owns the objector does not come up often though. I'd imagine slaying the person while they are holding the objector is the easiest way.



As a side, { {Night-Wing3000/CrimsonCowboy was the person I was rather frustrated about which lead me to make this application. It does appear they have been perma gagged, according to this post here on the forum. My whole goal as moderator would be to make sure people like them would be dealt with in a timely matter, preferably less than 24 hours after a report is issued. I know this is somewhat contradictory to my earlier statement saying I maintain I would only be on the servers for several days out of the month, but there does appear to be a robust moderation system on discord. I would be on my computer for most days out of the week, and spending up to 15 minutes to confirm a report should be easy enough for me. I don't know how many reports a chain of servers as big as Blackwonder would get in a 24 hour period, as I have mostly been just a single server manager, but hopefully getting through 4-8 of these a day with an additional 4+ hours of playtime and moderation would make a sizeable daily dent in reports.

 

[Ash Shaw]

Hiya Lemon! We are pleased to inform you that we have decide to accept you on the team as a Trial Moderator for:

█ BLW.TF US | HIGHERTOWERX | X1000 WEAPONS █ - IP: 85.117.240.57:27035​

We've gone ahead and DM'd you some information on Discord. Welcome to the team!

 

[Chris TCC]

so now we got cake and lemoncake. Interesting.
also congrats