[ReThink]

I see, that's an important distinction to make imo.

As for the ban requests (that i'm seeing a lot of people mention), isn't it kinda nonsensical to base "worthiness" for being a mod on ban requests?

Like you mentioned, he could just be passing it to mods/admins when online instead of making the ban req. himself (Which I don't blame him for; I do that a lot too. It's a pain in the ass for me to take screenshots, upload them to an image site, and then link them all in relevant order just to ban req some "RDm lol" guest when an admin could just instaban on the spot.)
So it would make sense for numbers to be low if he simply just brings it to a mod/admin.

Plus it's kinda crazy to assume because he has fewer reports, he's not doing his job. Maybe he's resolving conflict so that there isn't a need for reports/reqs as often? That would make him an even better mod than simply making a report, yet the numbers would still be low. I've seen many mods do this, so I don't believe it's too far fetched.

Conceptually, it's dumb to have a quota that you have to fill to rank up, as you're basically relying on people to do things wrong to show you're doing your job, when in reality if you're doing it ideally there wouldn't even be reports to do. Same concept as those "police ticket quota" myths.

Obviously there will always be trolls who join to just mass RDM, but at that point you just have people trying to rank up rushing to do them that beat you to it, or already-mods that just do it then and there to save hassle, both of which would keep that number low.

I'm sure @Ace1579 has not done reports on occasion, like every mod here at some point, but the amount of effort being put into this little flaw to say he isn't good enough to be a mod despite his good qualities when staff are needed at his playtime (of day) is pretty ridiculous.

Even if you don't report much like the others say @Ace1579 , I think that's a infentesimal reason to deny this app. 

I don't want to speak for others, but I don't think they were complaining that Ace doesn't report RDMers on the server. I mean I personally can attest that he certainly does.

Rather, they were alleging that Ace does not actively review reports on the server to administer slays and whatnot.

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I play with Ace a lot simply because he plays a ton. I think that's certainly a good feature for a staff member. Unfortunately, many of our upper staff (Mod+) don't play too actively because of other commitments or simply burn out. Even I don't play as often as I should.

So Ace plays quite a bit and does so late at night as well. Both of these are pretty notable distinctions for Ace.

One thing that I'm not a big fan of though is the lack of ban requests. Ace has been a test mod for a pretty long time but has only submitted 4 ban requests. I'm not sure exactly when he became a staff member but I (not to brag but instead to compare) have submitted 50 ban requests since I became a staff member last August. I don't know the full story though. Perhaps you just send proof and requests directly to an upper staff member. If so, that's great. If not, I find it a little hard to believe that you've only encountered 4 ban worthy people.


Ace, I'd like to thank you for your work on the server. Best of luck with your application here.