»How to become a successful staff member !

Blackbird951 · Dec 14, 2015

Good

Loljov · Dec 14, 2015

Nice man keep it up

minecraftstudios · Dec 18, 2015

wow this will be very helpful

jessicaoxford · Dec 28, 2015

Honey said: ↑

Hello Guys,

Recently many people have started to complain against staff members mostly because they were wrongfully muted or hey think the staff member has issues with them or he / she ignores them, I can't say that I'm the best staff member GC ever had but I'm staff for quite a bit of time now so I'd like to share my experiences with every other staff member who's reading this. ( Note : I'd be pointing out paragraphs I took from an article before posting this topic in my points ). The rules I'd be telling you in this topic are very obvious but many staff members forget them resulting into reports against them, personally I've never been reported for anything but that doesn't mean I do not make mistakes, infact I must've made more mistakes than any other GC Staff member This topic is not to anyone is particular but meant to be a reminder to EVERY staff member as well as the players so sometimes when staff forgets these rules, the players can remind them

1. Neutralism

GC receives many applications over the year but most of the people think a mod's job is to just take care of the chat. Well that's NOT true. When you become a mod, you've to kinda stop playing like before ( This doesn't mean you stop playing ), From now on you play in a different way which doesn't mean being rude to other people or acting like other people are peasants, It means from now on you're neutral to everyone, You're enemies, you're friends and other players, they're all neutral to you. Even if your brother breaks any rules, warn him or insta mute them depending on the level of the rule breaking.Perhaps this would convey my message to you in a better way :

2. Listen to both sides of the story

This is once again a form of neutralism, When a player reports something to you don't ask him to go report it at the forums unless there's nothing you can do about it, Ask him thoroughly what happened and before taking any action, ask the reported person why he had done something which had angered the reporter. If you think the reported person had done something fine then tell the reporter that it's something allowed or fine, For e.g. I get msgs many times that they've been scammed but usually I just tell them that Sorry but scamming is allowed and there's nothing I can do.

3. Be kind to people

Like I said before, Do not think other players are peasants or something below you in ranking, They're just the same as you, just with less provided powers.If they ask anything from you, instead of a direct 'no' which is sometimes harsh on the other person, kindly tell them that it's not allowed to ask items from staff ( only for prison, idk if this rule applies for other servers ) or tell them that you cannot give because you want them to stand on their own two feet. Usually I prefer not to give people items because sometimes other people feel unfair that someone has been treated better by the staff member while you were declined by him. Perhaps this would convey a better message :

4. Punishment

It is very important to know what kind of punishment you have to give your players, in order to be fair to them. When a player for example, uses bigotry by saying a discriminating word to another player, without realising he said something wrong (This happens often), then the best way to react on this is a warning. Actually, almost everything ALWAYS start with a warning, except for the following rules:

Server or outside link advertise

Swearing

Sexual or offensive material

A person can make a joke about someones mom. A person can type something, not realizing that what he typed was wrong. And a staff member can give a too high punishment to something the player didn't deserve. When the warning didn't help, you can do a temporary mute of a hour or maybe a longer mute, depending on how he reacted on the warning on what the rules say. And after the temporary mute, if he acts like this again or breaks any other kind of rule, you can report him to a head staff member. BUT, never, never ever mute him instantly it's misuse of your power as a staff member and the reason why he said something wrong can always have an explanation about it.

5. Always help people

I've noticed that many mods ignore people seeking their help because they think It's a Helper's job to help and not their's. I know that they've clearly written that Mod's job is to only keep the chat clean but helping player is also a hidden job of you's along with many others. Infact when I was a mod, I used to help people more than keeping the chat clean because mostly there were other staff members online who were faster in muting then I was, however this doesn't mean I was ignoring the chat, I tried to warn / mute everyone I was able to but most of the time other staff members were faster than me in doing that so I mostly tried to help other people, Another example of this : Like I said, Scamming is allowed in almost every GC server except for Survival and maybe Semi Vanilla ( Not sure ) but when new people Usually around [a] - [f] in Prison told me that they were scammed, I usually used to pay them back and tell them that scamming is allowed and to keep watch when you trade something next time.

6. Don't get worked up if you're still not promoted

Promotion is one of the toughest decisions of a H-Admin. Before he promotes you, he needs to test you many times so that he's sure that you're capable of the next rank.Even if you think that you deserve a promotion don't say it directly to the H-Admin or the chances of you getting promoted would fall down in an instant. Try to fulfill your job as much as you can and show your activity as much as you can and even if the
H-Admin doesn't consider you getting promoted, Other P-Admins will try to recommend you for the promotion, In my case, I was recommended to @ItsAmethyst by @eagles12345 I told you this so you'd know that I'm not lieing, just keep faith in yourselves and you'll surely be promoted,

7. Keep up a good personality

Having a good personality is an important factor for becoming a successful staff member, Why is it important? Well because many people have staff members as their role models, they are inspired by them and later on when they think they are ready they also apply for staff, Now If you've a bad personality they'll be still considering you their model but if they will be insired by you they'll be becoming like you and developing a bad personality which would be bad for the server as well as the player himself. This point is not for becoming a successful staff member but instead it will help you get better friends and will help us and after all every successful king had a heir for him too

I think I've conveyed all the points that I wanted to, This has not ended though, I expect contributions by other staff members so new mods can follow this when they're learning how to climb the ropes. If you liked my post, don't forget to share it with other people / players
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thanks @Honey It helped alot bec. i wish i would be a FUTURE staff memeber

MeicaCurryKing · Dec 28, 2015

Is there any difference between Staff-Member and Mod (Moderator)?

Bunny · Dec 29, 2015

MeicaCurryKing said: ↑

Is there any difference between Staff-Member and Mod (Moderator)?
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Na, staff-member is normally mod/helper/player-admin/admin/head-admin, it's just the collective or general name for them all i guess.

Ashley89 · Dec 29, 2015

Bunny said: ↑

Na, staff-member is normally mod/helper/player-admin/admin/head-admin, it's just the collective or general name for them all i guess.
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Also for global-admin

ServerMask · Dec 29, 2015

Murda said: ↑

How do people read this
1. Be active on forums
2. Tag staffs and act like staffs on report threads and all threads
3. Stalk Everyone
4. Be friendly from the start
5. If you become staff punish everyone kill em all
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xD

Angry Avenger · Dec 29, 2015

thanks for the advice

Zhao98 · Jan 4, 2016

This is really helpful, good job, Honey!

Anonymus_gaming · Jan 4, 2016

Thanks this guide had helped me understand alot more in the role of a staff member. Though i never had any experience of being a staff member which is why i might consider applying for staff because of my 5 years of playing mc in total i never been a staff member before on any server so yeah.

endyloveppl · Jan 4, 2016

Thanks really awesome !will come handy some day. Btw aap ka kya haal hai ?@Honey

iverstaylot00 · Jan 7, 2016

Very helpful information! This information is all true, and will help you!! Read it all, again and again.
I wasn't recommended by anyone (as far as I know), and the head-admin at the time (xph11) didn't know me too well, so he put a LOT of trust in me making me staff. Still to this day, I can't believe @xph11 accepted me as a mod back in September
One thing that I recommend that @Honey should add to this list is this:
(I was in a time crunch when typing this, so edit as you see fit)
Your Application
The one thing that matters a LOT when applying for staff is your
application, so you want to make yours as unique and well-written as possible. One thing that is the most important is grammar! If you do not have correct grammar, it shows that you did take the time to go through your application, and point out the flaws in your sentence.
Another thing to remember, is it isn't just on what your going to do, it is also what you've done in your past. Mention times when you showed truly how mature/honest you are (if you aren't, don't even bother applying for staff, it just makes it harder for them).
One final thing to put in your essay is a memorable quote! I put this memorable quote into my application (to this day, it is my favorite part of the application) Do not use my quote!!! I will freak out! Find your own unique quote

"But, one thing I want you to remember when you consider accepting my application is this:

Do not underestimate me until you have challenged me."

I should know about good applications... I am going for an English major when I head to college in 2 very short years, and I studied persuasive speech for a long time (3 weeks in fact) before making my application to become a mod on the semi-vanilla server.
I also type my semi-vanilla application 7 different times, each in a separate word document. Each version was better than the last, and on the seventh try, I was satisfied with my work
I still have those applications saved to this day on my google drive.

ItsmeSteyn · Jan 7, 2016

Looks good, was a good read but a tad repetative for the first 3 paragraphs.

Now well jhst have to see how many will be promoted, who reacted in this topic ^^. Let the games begin!

Honey · Jan 8, 2016

ItsmeSteyn said: ↑

Looks good, was a good read but a tad repetative for the first 3 paragraphs.

Now well jhst have to see how many will be promoted, who reacted in this topic ^^. Let the games begin!
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I agree, I wrote this a few months ago and I need to redo adding some new suggestions but I just cant get time for it, Will rewrite or add more content to it asap

Shadowgeek · Jan 9, 2016

Hey, @Honey. Wanted to help you out so I corrected some grammar/tense/spelling/etc. issues with your post. Hope it's useful Please don't take offense, I'm just helping out since you said that you didn't have the time to rewrite it. Attached as .PDF.

LouisChoulou · Jan 14, 2016

Very nice tutorial explanation... it can really help me because I am looking to be a staff member.

ahmed995 · Jan 20, 2016

nice post it's so useful for new staffs

Stimay · Jan 26, 2016

Nice!

Shadowrunner28 · Feb 18, 2016

Thx this helped very much

exshiro · Feb 19, 2016

Thanks dude , I'll consider it if I'll be accepted Resepect dude

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