Helper Application from Mockingbae2

Member Name Mockingbae2

Additional In Game Names: n00bslayer_99, Mockingbae & Heisenberg1999 (Previous IGN's)

How old are you? 15

Location: Denmark (GMT+1)

Do you have TeamSpeak? Yes

How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekdays) 3-6

How many hours per day do you play MeepCraft? (weekends) 4-6

Have you ever been staff on this or any other server? No

References: Please give IGN's metr0n0me,Bob4444444 & 2004grevous

When did you join Meepcraft? November 21 2013

Introduction: Hello Meepcraft! Now, you might already be dismissing this application due to my history of bans, in particular scamming, but I’m here today to make the ultimate turn-around on that history. The staff team gave me an amazing second chance when they unbanned me, and now I want to give back to the staff team and the community.
My name is Will (Mockingbae2), you can call me whichever you want, and I’m a 15 year old 9th grader. I live in Denmark, although I grew up in Australia. I currently have a job at Netto (grocery store), where I work 14 hours a week. Usually after I’ve worked for a few hours, I’ll hop on a train up to a beautiful sea town called “Gilleleje”, where I have a boat that I take out for a few hours. Yeah, I really love sailing. Sailing while listening to some Kenny Loggins.. mmm, doesn’t get better than that! Moving on… I recently had to quit basketball after having played for 6 years, as I was starting to lose interest in the sport. I am now looking at starting Handball instead. I spend a lot of my spare time reading, in particular I love the Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, and the Percy Jackson series’. I also love playing video games. I play CS:GO, GTA, and most of the time, Meepcraft.
I joined Meepcraft exactly 2 years ago, on November the 21st 2013. I started by joining a town, and then I met a friend on Meep who’s name was Splasho999. Splasho and I became pretty good friends, I helped him a lot on his town and he helped me get settled on Meep. In January 2014 I got my first town, and I worked very hard to build it up. I’ve spent my time since then owning different towns and getting involved with the community.

Why should you be Helper? Experience - To be honest, I’ve never been staff on any server before. However, I have been a part of Meepcraft for 24 months now and I have an extensive knowledge of the commands. With all the towns I’ve owned, I know most, if not every towny command there is. Often when you’re moderating a town a new player will join, and I believe that the skill of helping them and making them feel at home on Meepcraft could very well be applied to a staff position. On top of that, the experience I have of helping people at work is something that would naturally affect how I help people on Meepcraft; I always strive to make every customer walk away with satisfaction and a smile. When I lived in Australia, I was a part of the Australian Naval Cadets for 4 years. For the last 2 years of that time, I was a Leading Seaman, and so that have given me some exceptional leadership skills that will also apply to a staff position.

Work Ethic - When I first started sailing, I was terrible at it. I couldn’t set the sails right, and I can’t tell you how many times I got knocked off the side by the boom. However, I really liked sailing, and so I put in as much work as I could to master it. A few years forward, and out of the 200 Naval Cadets in my town I was #1. At school I top my class in writing and maths, however history is one of the subjects where I fall off a bit. My point here is, I put a lot of work into something if I am passionate about it, and I am definitely passionate about Meepcraft.

Dedication - Having played Meepcraft for 2 years now, I truly understand how unique Meepcraft is. Being a strict (that’s a good thing) and child-friendly server, it’s easy to see the difference between this and other servers. On other servers, spam and swearing is continuous in chat, and thus it’s hard to find someone mature to have a nice conversation with. On Meepcraft however, I know I can have a rationalised conversation with someone, because people on Meep are so mature. This really strengthens my dedication to the server, because it is something I want to stand up for and defend. Meepcraft means a lot to me, and I intend to stay here for as long as I can.

Involvement & Activity - I play Meepcraft 4 - 6 hours a day, and therefore I’d be a great asset to have in the European timezone, when there is usually only 1 or 2 staff members on at a time. I’m always active in global, and do my best to help out players where I can. Sometimes it may seem like I’m afk or not there at all, however, that is usually because I am either helping out a player or socializing in places other than global. I am also very involved in community events, having held many myself.

Helpful - I know that this is a very mainstream thing to say, but I really do love to help people. There’s a reason that I have a job where I spend my day serving people, and a reason for why I was so dedicated to being a Navy Cadet for so long; I make it my duty to make sure that every single customer is attended to with quality and efficiency - this is a great strength while handling modreq’s and answering questions.

What are your weaknesses? Teamspeak & Mic use - On teamspeak I am active however usually not talking. This is because I have to go to great lengths to set up a mic (starting up an old laptop and opening ts on there) as my mic for some reason doesn’t work on my everyday laptop. However, while I may not be talking, I am usually always on ts when I am in-game, and so I will still easily be able to moderate TS, attend meetings, and just in general listen to anything I need to be listening to.
Bluntness - Recently, a close friend asked me a question and so I gave him my answer to it; after I’d written it, there was a stillness for some seconds, as I read over and realised that what I’d said had seemed outright rude. This is something that I only recently discovered, and so I will be sure to really work on it and look over what I’m saying, before I say it. In other words, it’s an easy fix, and in any case don’t take what I see too seriously, as a lot of the time I’m just joking around.

Please give any other information you might think is useful for us to know: Before you vote on this application I’d like you all to read through my application and take a look at how I have changed; Because I have changed, and I promise you that.
To conclude the application, I believe I’d be a valuable asset to the staff team. You will not regret giving me an interview.

 

+1
Since you've been unbanned I've seen a great increase in all activity and maturity.
Your app was great
I've also seen you being helpful

 

I would most definitely lean towards a -1 because often times I'd seen you be rude, but recently I've seen you change. But I don't feel like I can say that it's for the better yet. Furthermore, you do have a habit to go into a lot of debate threads, hence whatever you say is always heated and unpleasant. I read your entire app, yes. You seem a lot more positive on this app and this one in particular, whereas anywhere else you come off as moody and negative. I'd roughly scanned through your recent messages, going as far back as beginning of October, but no more than that because I didn't feel that I needed to go there. If you cannot be respectful to others, it will not go well for you applying now. Ultimately, in the end, I don't hate you. But if you trash-talk everyone, being only helpful is as close to being useless. If you can change to be more positive, then I will see potential in you as staff.

 

You're extremely arrogant, rude, and immature. If something happens, you go out in a fit of rage, quit for a short time, and then come back again.
Recently, you have been alright, but only for a short time. YOu have to solidly work on this, you can't quit.
-1. I really don't think you're ready. Haven't seen you help nor get on ts (even when you were online and talking.)

 

Active, Mature, Helpful, well-written app
+1

 

I don't think I've ever seen you be helpful in meep, and I've only seen rude things from you on forums. just work on being more nice and helpful. because your activity is pretty good I think you could improve pretty quickly.
-1 for now, good luck!

 

-.5
Here is another of my pros and cons lists.
Pros:
Active in game for the most part

Cons:
Easily aggravated
Rude (sometimes)
Immature (for the most part)

I have seen lots of improvement sense your last ban but my vote will remain unless you can prove me otherwise.

 

You've been really helpful, and since you've gotten unbanned, I feel that you've done a great job with activity, maturity, and the like. Definite +1

 

-.5 You have shown a great increase in maturity, i'm in the middle though.

 

Hello, MockingBae, My friend has had pretty bad experiences in the past were you have been rude and mean to him and I don't know if I can get past that. +/-

 

Hi there! In the past you've been ruder to me and people I know than any other person I've met on forums. You tend to call others stupid and point out how much more intelligent you are quite often. You also do have an extensive ban history, which is important despite it already being pointed out.
Regardless of that you very well may have improved in these aspects, but while I see you as a well-known and likable member of this community, I don't think it's due to your kindness or tendency to help others.
Either way, you definitely do have a great knowledge of the server and minecraft in general so I hope you do end up turning your knowledge into positivity and using that to the advantage of all players more.
Also a very well written app. I hope in the future you continue to become a more productive and encouraging player
-.5 for now


EDIT: I would like to see you being kind to others and trying to be helpful for a little bit longer before being on staff. While you might have changed in the last month, a lot of people do that when they decide they want to apply for helper and I just want to see for sure it isn't an act.

 

You've broken every rule in the book. You've quit many times. You've posted many things on the forums that make you come off as naive and impulsive. You don't come off as very friendly. These are all things that don't make a good staff member. I'm sure you can keep it together and act fine for a couple weeks, but eventually you'll get bored and do something stupid. I've seen it happen time and time again with people who aren't mature enough for staff, but get it anyways.

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Denied

Given your ban history and rather consistent issues with abiding by the rules we need to see have a little more time where your behavior is in line with the rules.