Accepted Wolf's Re-Application (1 Viewer)

[Wolf]

Full Name / Ingame name (Steam):
Wolf van Goudzwaard / ~Wolf! (steam)

- Age: Quite aged, 25 years old.

Who gave me permission to apply:
The servers who advertise oftenly.
And many players requested me to rejoin as an Administrator.

Steam ID:
STEAM_0:1:35842942

Time zone and online time:
+1:00 - Amsterdam
I cannot be online as much as I used to sadly, but I would love to help out when I'm on the servers. I atleast would be online weekly.

Which server do I play on:
I play on a lot of Panda servers.
Mario Kart, Freak Fortress, Jailbreak, Trade' to name a few.
This Application is for Freak Fortress 2 and Jailbreak since Trails can only apply to two servers.

Do I have an Microphone?:
I got a RODE NT-USB which works perfectly fine still.

My previous experience as Admin or Moderator:
I've been an Admin on this website for quite some time.
I've resigned 6-7 months ago since I had to move out and had some personal issue's going on for me, I was not able to come online every week at that time.

Do I have experience with administrating with SourceMod?
I know all the basics still, I wrote down all the importand ones I should know (especially for Jailbreak)
I've seen some new interesting ones, but I can ask them to my mentor if I get one. (funny as I was mentor myself a lot of times, Madact perhaps?)

Why should I be part of the Team?
I feel like I'm part of the team already, I have a lot of Panda players on my friend list and many people recognise me when I join in the servers.

I should be part of the team since Panda could really use some more administration in the servers.
A lot of Admins have left this week and some servers lack administration like Jailbreak.

How would I work as admin on the Panda Community servers?:
I will have to start as Trail Admin again, so I don't know how far I can go with my punishments.
But I will note down some basic ones.

Warn players before giving them mutes/gags. after 2 tries I will mute/gag them.
The duration would depend on how badly it is. (2hours-3days)
This would go for Microphone spammers with music/screaming and chat users who are cursing in chat or spam it with Lenny's and whatnot.

I would like to perma-ban cheaters in the game, but not sure if I would be able to as Trail.
I could inform a full admin to clear the job if this is the case.

I would slay players if they don't listen to ingame rulebreaking, like camping as a hale for FF2 or Stealing the ball at Dodgebal.
If this would go into a conflict in chat or microphone it could end up in a short ban (6hours)
If I see the player do it again then I would give them a final warning to it and give them another ban (just as much till they earn their Full ban from this Community)

Jailbreak
Jailbreak has tons of rules, some even made by myself.
I would love to go into detail with ya to explain how I would deal in here but I was the Only Admin on Jailbreak for some while and I kinda know how to deal with most situations.

The only thing I am wondering if I should behave as a Full admin in Jailbreak and give the full punishments right away as I'm used to or not.
This is open for debate, I'm fine with both options since Jailbreak needs help as it is now.
Any kind of help is welcome.
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I made this Application after many requests from players.
Like I stated above I am not sure if I'm able to get online as oftenly as I did before so that is why I understand that I cannot become an Admin for Panda.
This is just me offering help to the servers as much as I can now.

Thank you so much for reading my aplication! (once again?)
Please Give a comment below what you think of my application and if I should be accepted or not.

~Love ya all and thank you for reading!

 

[KomodoHunters14]

Now since i'm not a admin i cant vote but if i was, it would very much be an up-vote, when i was playing JB during the years the bloody thing was alive and when wolf up here was well known and a very respected admin, he was probably the most fun I've had with a admin EVER. Wolf knows what he needs to do and when to do it, He was aware of the rule breakers and from what i saw he appreciated every person on the server and they trusted him to get the job done and even play both sides very well. That may be nostalgia and delusions talking as its been a long time since i saw Wolf and my memory isn't really good even for someone as young as i am but i believe that Wolf here is very deserving of coming back to the team

 

[Wolf]

Now since i'm not a admin i cant vote but if i was, it would very much be an up-vote, when i was playing JB during the years the bloody thing was alive and when wolf up here was well known and a very respected admin, he was probably the most fun I've had with a admin EVER. Wolf knows what he needs to do and when to do it, He was aware of the rule breakers and from what i saw he appreciated every person on the server and they trusted him to get the job done and even play both sides very well. That may be nostalgia and delusions talking as its been a long time since i saw Wolf and my memory isn't really good even for someone as young as i am but i believe that Wolf here is very deserving of coming back to the team

Oh why thank you, what a sweet comment~

You may not vote if yer not an Admin, but it does help out for the Admins who don't know the Player behind the Application.
So thank you for that one! And yes, it's a bloody shame to see the servers this empty on Jailbreaks part.
Maybe there is a way to fix that, I would love to help out atleast.

 

[TriiX]

welcome back :^)

 

[Lieva]

I've never played much jailbreak,used to play alot of it when Madact was "head of the gang", but later quited it due lack of something. Sneaked into it time to time and overall didn't play much when Wolf was online. But when he was, damn did he good job. Fairly strict admin, but at the same time really friendly and easy to get along with.

And everyone knows how friendly people are or "were" in jailbreak, so I'd say Wolf was one of the greater admins in Jb at the time.

Since jailbreak is kinda dead atm, and there can't be too much admins in ff2, I'd happily welcome you back to the team. Take my support

 

[Madact]

Well I've known Wolf since he came onto the jailbreak server. He was admin material and it worked out well for the jailbreak server as he was able to support it long enough after Matt-ers and Maddity left.
He's been great with me. I haven't agrued with him, we flow on the same values and I know he personally has the best intentions to improve panda community.
But I do have an issue. Currently your sessions are not up to the standard that I want it to be. So I am not giving my vote until I see your sessions improve. I hope you understand. Plus I feel I need to make sure I am not favouring you

 

[Wolf]

Well I've known Wolf since he came onto the jailbreak server. He was admin material and it worked out well for the jailbreak server as he was able to support it long enough after Matt-ers and Maddity left.
He's been great with me. I haven't agrued with him, we flow on the same values and I know he personally has the best intentions to improve panda community.
But I do have an issue. Currently your sessions are not up to the standard that I want it to be. So I am not giving my vote until I see your sessions improve. I hope you understand. Plus I feel I need to make sure I am not favouring you

My sessions have improved, I've been on the servers since a week(+?) now.
But you are correct to judge me by the time spend on the servers, I won't be able to be on that oftenly anymore, atleast weekly I could promise.
But I've noted that in the Application as well, I am not sure how things will turn out with time but I do want the best for the players on the servers and if I have to spare time to act to a call or happen to be in the servers myself then I would love to help out.

Also, I'm glad to see that you have made it back in the community yourself.
I really missed you back then when everyone was gone, you were the last Admin who was on the community when I like started out. (and Da Random ofcourse!)
But that's enough flattering, people have to judge me from my actions and abilities~

 

[superfart435]

Yesh, you need to become an admin again so i can make my spicey road killed wolf meme's and get ban's form you <3

 

[Wolf]

Yesh, you need to become an admin again so i can make my spicey road killed wolf meme's and get ban's form you <3

Do as you wish, I would say it's a waste of your money but if you're so eager to try to get attention of Admins by annoying them by those actions. You are free to do so, especially since that isn't forbidden in the rules.

Although, it concerns me that people like you go to servers to bother people who are trying to enjoy a gamemode.
If you only could could put that time and effort to make everyone have a good time in there, but I can't force you to do so.
So do as you wish...

 

[Cammy]

Speaking as an ex-trial and ex-admin, this applicant abandons their trials quite fast, leaving them with questions. I spent a good amount of time pissed at this user because they would avoid their server entirely. I spent 2-3 months solo-running Jailbreak before my mentor resigned and other regulars applied.

This happened before I applied in the case of Swaggy and BlackBread; with Wolf leaving them for a whole week directly after they were instated as trial administrators. Swaggy did everything he could during that time, with me assisting him (but not knowing the internal system), whereas Blackbread did literally nothing. Swaggy got bitched at for making some mistakes which were on my part due to my lack of knowledge regarding the Panda Community's internal admin system; Blackbread got praised for doing nothing.

The user in question hates being challenged, is relatively scatter-brained and avoids questions if it means a confrontation. If you want to see him as an admin again, make sure he understands that he cannot simply abandon his trials.

 

[Wolf]

Speaking as an ex-trial and ex-admin, this applicant abandons their trials quite fast, leaving them with questions. I spent a good amount of time pissed at this user because they would avoid their server entirely. I spent 2-3 months solo-running Jailbreak before my mentor resigned and other regulars applied.

This happened before I applied in the case of Swaggy and BlackBread; with Wolf leaving them for a whole week directly after they were instated as trial administrators. Swaggy did everything he could during that time, with me assisting him (but not knowing the internal system), whereas Blackbread did literally nothing. Swaggy got bitched at for making some mistakes which were on my part due to my lack of knowledge regarding the Panda Community's internal admin system; Blackbread got praised for doing nothing.

The user in question hates being challenged, is relatively scatter-brained and avoids questions if it means a confrontation. If you want to see him as an admin again, make sure he understands that he cannot simply abandon his trials.

I want to clear some things, I've never abandoned the servers.
You can look this up in my gameme and Sourcebans, I did my job till the very end (the last month a lot less ofcourse, one of the reasons why I had to resign)

It seems like you're telling that I've done a bad job in mentoring you, I never heard that from you in person.
We always skyped daily and discussed the rule systems and the players on the servers, at some point you knew every single rule/good enough to be a Administrator for Jailbreak.
I saw you as one of my friends and I still do, and I can take feedback but this feels a bit out of place...

Blackbread and Swaggy?
I wasn't there when Swaggy became admin, I only voted -1 on his other application what was from a long time ago.
My honest opinion was that he wasn't ready to become admin since he wasn't always aware what happend in the Jailbreak server and he seemed a bit slow at that time, also he can't really take criticism that well.
That said, he has been doing a great job as admin now. and I already apologized to him for my harsh comment on his application back then but that opion of mine was about him doing administration for the servers, nothing personal. (I see Swaggy as a good friend)

For Blackbreads part though.. there isn't much to say about that since he wasn't there for most of the time.
He has been on sometimes, most likely on friday's and when he did he always asked me when he will be promoted so he can step away from Jailbreak. (he didn't even did his job that well so I told him that he wasn't ready yet)

"The user in question hates being challenged" It's not something what people like in general right?
Although I'm not sure what you mean by that since you didn't gave an example but I can take a guess.
I don't want to brag about myself and how I act as an admin but I've always been a bit soft on my punishments.
People who mentored me know that (most of them left, maybe Madact remembers) I always try to give people more chances to get it right since Jailbreak isn't just a simple ÿou broke this rule so this is the punishment" atleast... that's how I would like to think.
I wasnt to give people a chance to learn from this gamemode and learn how this is meant to be played.
That explains why I've given that many Guardbans on my end.

But something changed and that's maybe something you didn't really like about me, as I explained all the rules and punishments I applied diffrent punishment to players because I saw a diffrence between players (ones willingly to learn-new players-casuals-trolls etc)
You highly disagreed on this one and oftenly cursed over over it. (I actually was scared when that happend)
I've changed my ways on how I act on Jailbreak, and my punishments were more strict but it felt that Jailbreak lost it's soul thanks to that and I've become a bit sad because of that.
I don't know what happend to the server when I left but it seems awfully quit nowedays and that is why I offered to help in this server.

You may not like me as an Administrator for Jailbreak, but the point is... many people actually do.
I've had over 5 requests to come back here and help people out, and I do care about the server.
I spend so much time in there to keep that gamemode up I don't want to see it in this condition, I hope you understand that.
You may not like me being a Administrator and disagree on my ways, but I hope you can atleast agree that the server needs Administration to keep this running. (you can also come back to do that, but there is nobody who wants to do it nowedays)

If I will be accepted then I have to do my Trials like everybody else.
To be honest I hope to progress quicker to Full so I can administrate in sourcebans better, but that's just an "if" I get accepted in the first place.

I'm so confused where this came from though.. have I done something to you personally?
This all seems a bit more personal towards me then actual on the Job itself. (Maybe it's just me)

for everybody else out there, feel free to comment about my ways of Administrating.
I don't mind it at all and won't take it personally, I will discuss it in this thread with you.
No grudges, I want to sort things out.

 

[Flynt]

Well it's about time I post my opinion here (my apologies in advance as I'm typing this on my phone)

Wolf ever since you arrived back in the server, I've been receiving more and more calls of rulebreakers, mostly made by you. Which shows me you actively support the server by reporting rulebreakers which I like to see. I also tried spying on you on the server seeing how you do stuff now and from what I've seen in some situations was that you were enforcing the rules.

I can say that being an admin won't be something strange to you and that you're capable of doing it with your previous experience as an admin here.

Though with that all said I am sort of worried for the future though. Speaking about the situation after Cammy got accepted you somewhat started having less activity on the server basically making your trials do the work you should be doing with them, I can agree that real life can somewhat collide with your duty as an admin and can take over. I also know that JB can be really energy draining and time consuming. Only thing sad about all this is that one trial had to pay for all that. (As the other trial was inactive for quite a while)

With all of the things I thought about mentioned I can say that I give this app a +0 I do believe that you'll be able to administrate JB but I have some doubts. I do wish you luck with this application

 

[Wolf]

Though with that all said I am sort of worried for the future though. Speaking about the situation after Cammy got accepted you somewhat started having less activity on the server basically making your trials do the work you should be doing with them, I can agree that real life can somewhat collide with your duty as an admin and can take over. I also know that JB can be really energy draining and time consuming. Only thing sad about all this is that one trial had to pay for all that. (As the other trial was inactive for quite a while)

Cammy was about to become full admin when I left, that being said he was already capable in administrating the server as a full admin.
I've been his Mentor for longer then a month, we Skyped on a daily basis and he knew every single rule. (the most effort I've ever had with a student)
If that doesn't fulfill my job as a mentor then you have to tell me what would, please.

But besides that point, it's not my responsibility that Cammy had to Administrate Jailbreak.
If it was too much for him he could have resigned or asked for help at the staff. (or switch gamemode like most did)
I couldn't come online anymore therefore I had to resign.
I know Jailbreak is difficult to Administrate but I don't know why I get the blame for that right now? I had to Administrate the server for a really long time alone after the big Admin strike and I'm not blaming @Madact or Matters for it. (just seems a bit silly since they have their own life and choices)

I also would like to mention that this is a application to become a Trial myself to help Jailbreak and Freak Fortress, the mentoring part seems a little bit far for this point?
I always said that people could ask for help if they needed help, it's even written in my resign letter but nobody ever gave a shout or comment about it so this "feedback" feels a bit out of place.

If there is something still you have to say about me then please go ahead, since I have the feeling this isn't about me applying for Admin but about Cammy.
Cammy wasn't my only student you know and they became full admin and resigned because of personal reasons.

 

[Madact]

Swaggy brings the point of one thing, would you needing to leave happen again within the future which will cause decreased activity to the point of resigning? Of course, real life can throw whatever at you so it's difficult to tell for sure.

So long as I see improvement in activity, no dip during the trial phase and confidence from Wolf himself this is something he wants to commit himself to in at least a 2-5 month period with decent sessions I see no other reason to turn him down unless there is something more to his administrating skills that causes concern. Wolf brought what most admins do not have, patience. I certainly don't have it anymore, but with a server like jailbreak on the sharp decline I personally think we cannot afford to be as harsh as we once where with rule breakers.

If it doesn't work out, I am sure Wolf will fit into a FF2 setting with his experience.

 

[Kevin]

just letting you know that your app is under review.

 

[Kevin]

accepted, welcome back onboard.

your mentor during your trial phase will be @Madact ; should you have any questions feel free to ask anyone of us.