[Jammin]

FYI SteamID is STEAM_0:0:212437782
Hey Bg_ALA,

Firstly, thank you for taking the time to apply to be a trusted-level staff member. Please understand that I mean this with the best of intentions for honest feedback, and mean no malice.

I have a multitude of concerns regarding your mentality in a potential staffing role. They are as follows:

• If GameTracker is accurate, you currently sit at 95 hours, which is technically below the bare minimum of 100 hours for trusted. Even then, applicants who wait for this minimum generally have other experience in moderating gaming servers or experience with TTT specifically. In your case, I'd like to see more in-game experience. I'm sure you'll be at minimum by the time this makes the rounds, but I feel for someone who joined this server to learn TTT, you need significantly more experience.
  
• I've played with you a lot, so I can attest to this oersonally. Your overall mentality can be kind at times, but at times you can be rather aggressive when agitated by various trolls, and will often feed into the trolling. One role of a staff member is to keep the overall server atmosphere primarily directed at the gameplay aspect, while mitigating those who directly intend to detract from this. I don't see the way you interact with trolls as being helpful. Sure you may be targeted at times by trolls, but this is usually because of your reaction. A trusted may have to bear the weight of 31 players concerns if no other staff are available (not ideal but it could happen from time to time).
  
• I question whether you would be able to fully understand the rules and be able to investigate reports well. On multiple times I've heard you arguing about a report you filed in which a slay was not administered. Reports can be complex at times, and staff may have to use careful discretion in determining a resolution. Sometimes people walk into crossfire accidentally, and sometimes players make mistakes and need to pay the consequences.
  
• To my knowledge your only community interaction is on the server itself. You aren't on the forums (besides here) and to my knowledge are not on discord. As dong said, making an introduction post and filing some ban requests of occasional mass RDMers (there will be some, no worries there) would help show that you can handle the ban request aspect of staffing. It's not a difficult aspect but you have to be able to post video and/or screenshot evidence here.
  
• You have to be able to discern when a joke is a joke. Just because someone jokes about RDM passes etc. doesn't mean that rule is suspended. I recall this happening one time where a lower staff member gave you 'permission' to RDM another player, when in actuality that was a pretty obvious joke.
  

My suggestion is to play more often, learn to take a step back from feeding the trolls, and get more involved in the community in discord and on the forums here. I hope you take this as I intend it to be, advice and honest feedback, as I do not mean any malice in these statements. I feel you have a lot to offer Dinkleberg's TTT and that you may eventually be able to handle making the leap to Trusted. You have a lot of potential in your future GMod play.
I'd recommend working on filing some ban requests here in the forums (usually for guest-level players who mass RDM) and work on your online interactions with other players. I'd recommend that you try reapplying after the Christmas season once you've worked on some of these issue - I feel that you could someday be an awesome staff member.

That said I cannot support a move to staff at this time.
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