Best Posts in Thread: Helper Application from ShadowLiran

Member Name ShadowLiran

Additional In Game Names: Liran2207 (I won't ever use this though since it was hacked in the past)

How old are you? 16

Location: Vaughan, Ontario, Canada

Do you have TeamSpeak? Yes

How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekdays) 3-4 (Depending on what I must do for school since I have a tough semester)

How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekends) 5+ (If I'm not going out, I'll be on a lot more)

Have you ever been staff on this or any other server? Yes

References: Please give IGN's Candy_Master, _Hollyleaf_, xB7Cx, Lysseal

When did you join Meepcraft? To be honest, I completely forget, but I think around September 2013.

Introduction: Hello everyone! My name is Liran, but most of you know me as ShadowLiran, even though Liran is still in there. I am 16 years old and I love the video game world. I do a lot of sports and activities outside as well, but I find a lot of interest in a variety of video games, which is why I spend a lot of my time playing them. Minecraft is definitely my top video game and Meepcraft consumes 98% of my time on it. I love to talk via text all the time, but I am super shy when it comes to talking by voice. I don't know why, but I have huge stage fright even over something like Skype. I always try my best to say what I must, but until I get comfortable with where I am speaking and who I am speaking to, I will barely talk or talk super quietly. I have a very peppy kind of personality, because I love making peoples' days. I don't know if I am considered a nice person, but it is something I always strive to achieve with anyone I'm with. I love the feeling when you turn someone from being sad to being happy or at least cheered up because I know that I made someone's day less depressing than it could have been. I am currently in grade 11, I have a pretty hard semester since I took all 3 sciences in AP even though I don't need any sciences where I want to go. (Waterloo Math/Computer Sciences). I have actually been Helper before, in January of 2014, and was helper for several months if I remember correctly. I want to prove to everyone and to myself that I can do more than that.

Why should you be Helper? I feel like I could become a great helper because I truly do love helping players. As my time as staff before, I learned that I really enjoy handling modreqs. It's just like that feeling I mentioned earlier, about making someone's day a bit better; well, most of the time, modreqs are helping someone getting something off their mind that was bugging them, so I could consider the same concept. Nowadays, more and more questions and concerns have been popping up in shout, at least from what I've seen, and when it's about 1-2 AM where I live, I typically see 1 or 2 and sometimes no staff online. I feel as if I could somewhat help the activity of staff because I am usually online many times throughout the day, and also when there are little staff on. I feel like I have a very vast knowledge of the commands, I usually see questions about plot commands or towny commands which is something I know even better due to managing my own town and brand new nation. I try my best to participate in all the different aspects of MeepCraft, to enhance my knowledge and experience with the different arcade mini-games like Laser and Skyblock, the town worlds, the events going on, and of course, the spawn. I am a huge supporter of any events that bring together the community, so don't be surprised to see me host some in the future if I become staff. I have thought about applying for staff many times in the past, and even many times within the past few weeks, but I was too scared to do it. But then I remembered something. My sister once told me "Anything you are scared to do now, do it anyways, because you will look back in the future and think to yourself 'Why didn't I do that?'." She then explained to me how the worst thing that could possibly happen is essentially a tiny bit of embarrassment that will be forgotten the next day. After thinking about this, I decided to just do what I was scared of and apply.

What are your weaknesses? I would say that my main weakness is my shyness. If you ever see me in a group chat in team speak, I will hardly say anything unless I am directly spoken to. I am trying very hard to work on this, it has always been a problem in my life, just talking to people by voice. I always talk very quietly and am unheard majority of the time. There are, of course, many people that I am very comfortable talking to or around, so that helps this issue a bit.

Another weakness I have is insecurity. I overthink everything that I say or do just because I am extremely terrified of any bad results that may occur. I always think of the worst possible outcome with anything I do. It gets a lot easier when I am talking by text because I type what my mind thinks, but when I talk, I stutter a bit and tend to have trouble finishing my sentence because I think of things like 'Is my word choice bad for this conversation?' or 'Should I say this, would it be worse if I did?', and then I forget what I was really saying, so I spend a lot of time trying to remember it. I am also working on this issue and hopefully I'll be able to articulate my words better so I don't stop mid sentence.

Hopefully, these issues aren't too big of a matter towards the staff position.

Another weakness I have, which is not really a weakness, is my writing skills. From this application, you can probably see that I am not too good at thinking of original things to say, mostly piecing parts of many, many applications. I am not a creative person overall.

Please give any other information you might think is useful for us to know: Hopefully you guys took the time to read through my application and hopefully all you readers have made a decision about me, whether good or bad.

Please leave constructive feedback so that I know what needs to be improved.
Thank you!

 

Accepted for interview.

 

+1 you would be a wonderful asset to the staff team