Best Posts in Thread: Lespauls19 Helper Application

IGN: lespauls19
skype: eeendavid
TS name: see IGN
Mic: Yes (Not as much recently due to the fact that I'm usually on in public locations, I graduate in a week so that will change)
Age: 17 (almost 18 )
Time: US ET
Hours online Weekday: 1-8
Hours online weekend: 2-8
Position Change: Ultimate to Helper.

Introduction:
Hello Meeplings! My name is Ian McShane (no relation to the actor) I joined MeepCraft back in late 2012 and got hooked on day 1. I am an aspiring musician and I play Piano, Vocals, Bass, and guitar in my free time along with MeepCraft of course. I graduate from high school in 1 week and am planning on taking a gap year to do some full time work and save some money. After my gap year I plan on going to New Hampshite Technical Institute for a year or two and then transfer to University of New Hampshire, major in Computer Sciences, and eventually end up being a software developer. I currently do lots of coding in my free time as well in several different languages and have been in 4-h and robotics programs for many years now.

Why I should be Helper:
I have had multiple staffing rolls on different servers including helper for 10 weeks a few months back on MeepCraft. I have also maintained a job as a lifeguard for most of my high school career which is something that not a given ability for everyone my age. I have also had many leadership roles in 4-h and in robotics leading kids from many different age groups.

I do believe I have a good ability to maintain a global perspective in situations in game where personal bias or conflict is possible and remain completely pragmatic and fair.

Since I recently started playing Meep again, I have made it my goal to make everyone's experience on Meepcraft better. I recently realized that is far more gratifying to make another person's gaming experience better than my own, even though my own experience is better when I help others. A good example of this is my new Twerkville drop party project where I raise money to do drop parties for the whole server. In just 4 days about 700k worth of items have been given away. I also enjoy doing things like buying free ranks for people with in game money who need them.

As for work ethic, when I am doing staff related work, I treat like a real life paid jobs as it should be treated. I put the well being of the community as a whole over the well being of me as a player. MeepCraft with all it's new additions over the past year can be a very confusing server to a new player and I do believe Helper or no Helper it's my job to try and be as welcoming, informative, and helpful as possible so answering a modreq is something I consider far more important than hosting my casino.

In general my activity on the forums, in game, shout, etc is very high. My one area where I need work is Teamspeak activity which will increase after graduation and over summer.

Weaknesses:
I can tend to be cranky when I don't get enough sleep.
Teamspeak activity as stated above.

Conclusion:
I am a nerdy guy who loves coding, music, and MeepCraft. And I want to improve the MeepCraft community as a whole one modreq and one player at a time.

Side Note:
This is where my one worry in this application lies, however it's something that must be brought up.
I own my own personal server and I do help out another small server with dev stuff. I understand MeepCraft's policy on other server involvement, however currently my goal in both these communities is to serve the current members, there is very little I need to do keep them up, and I think my MeepCraft involvement, activity, and dedication speaks for itself. If it is required however I will hand off any time consuming responsibilities to others within those communities and as for my server just continue to pay for it and keep it live for it's current community members. Currently with my server I am running no major ad campaigns or anything that could consider it competition or conflict with MeepCraft. But if required I can hand off all huge responsibilities.

Thank you for reading! -Les

 

Well VKL gave me +1, now it'll be denied for sure....Just kidding

 

accepted!

 

Well I would be happy to address these concerns as they are very valid. This is a subject which I feel comfortable openly talking about.
I'll give a quick summary of my previous time as staff because a lot led up to my leaving the staff team. Basically I did my app, had that get accepted and did well in my interview and got accepted as helper. Now this was not my first time as staff I had had my own semi successful server for almost 9 months at that point (which I had put on hiatus during my time as helper), so the first couple weeks went as expected, I made a few rookie mistakes here and there but in general no major screw ups and around an average modreq count. Then after that I had some real life issues which took me away from meepcraft so my modreq count lagged back a little for awhile. About 6 weeks in I then had the incident where I used an autotyper 100% unaware that it was illegal, I had seen hornemans use it and had informed other staff members I was using it, then one night I left it on and awoke to a kick message and a furiously scathing demotion request from snorehax backed by a lot of the community saying I should be banned for hacking and using a client outside of minecraft. So Onis came up with the solution that it "doesn't affect his ability to do his job" and so he simply banned me for 1 day for "Spam". Rather than realizing that he had saved me from an embarrassing demotion, I absolutely raged at him in skype talking about how it was unprofessional and how does it look when he bans someone but leaves them a staff member. But eventually I calmed down and continued to do my job after that, however real life was still a problem for me and my modreq count was not as high as it should have been. I will say however that I did a lot more outside of modreqs and did a lot of things like terrarium patrol etc. But anyways, at about week 8 one issue I had was modreq count so mods+ were always urging me to do more modreqs. Finally one day I had gotten on, been on for 20 minutes and had done about 13 modreqs which had piled up before I had gotten on (there was at least 8 other staff members on at the time), then finally went to go do something for my skyblock and then 2 more modreqs came up and deinen told me to get working on modreqs and made a some joking comment about me slacking off (which he obviously meant to be humorous) and I just snapped and asked why I was always getting bugged to do modreqs when I was not the only one who would slack off. Now again deinen being the good staff member he is just let me vent until I was done and then moved on. So here is where we get to the end. I had a series of tests in school coupled with other activities that meant I wouldn't be able to be on Meep for a good couple weeks. So I notified my overseer (Sirrr_pig) telling him I'd be a little inactive for a couple weeks and he said that was fine. I then get back 2 weeks later and sirrr tells me that upper staff were discussing my demotion for inactivity and that i had been given "too many second chances". At that point I was really mad that I might actually get demoted even though I gave full notice of my absence. So I decided to resign.
Basically I figured that at that time I could not function on the staff team and therefore there was no reason for me to stay on.
I do also admit that this was a stressful time in my life due to some real life issues and so upon reflection I can see how rash some of the things I said were. I made a full apology to Onis stating how grateful I was for what he did and how sorry I was for being to blind and not realizing what he had done for me.

Sorry if this was more information than you were looking for, wanted to give the full background of events that led up to my resignation.

 

Done. I have set everything the way it needs to be, resigned from my one dev position on the other server and handed off all duties on my own server so it will remain up for it's current members which I did previously when I was helper and have been told is fine.