What I find concerning

Completely true. It also makes applicants feel the need to publicly help, which ends up more of just a contest in trying to quickly beat everyone to answering a question and making leaps to just try and prove they’re helpful. Yeah, helping out in chat is a good thing to see, but when it’s an annoying stretch trying to beat-the-mods-to-it type of thing, ugh.

 

LOL YES WELL SAID, I WOULD RATE AGREE x100000000000
“lemme be the first to say “wb” when a mod is back to show i care for them”
EDIT: WELL SAID TO THE POINT I THINK YOUR CALLING PEOPLE OUT EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE NOT

 

Similar to how some people donate to the homeless or charities without recognition and some make YouTube videos about it.

 

All help should be genuine. Some people just answer questions with “I think” or give false answers just for recognition.
If you don’t know the answer, don’t answer the question.

 

I actually prefer private messaging to help others because it’s less spammy, and supports/no supports mean absolutely nothing. Instead, the responders should give feedback

 

yeaahah, as a mod back in the days I usually just private msged and randomly tped to ppl to give em items. uhuh today on the news: players are NOT supporting applicants for NOT spamming in public chat in return for recognition

 

Like when you help in public chat alot like crazy and then someone says u need to help more makes me frustrated as I always help in public chat and sometimes in private messages.I

 

I will say that this Skyblock community is extremely harsh to moderator applicants. (hence why I’ve never applied)

Many negatively rate applications because of trivial things such as:
—no colour/too much colour
—minor typos (even if the applicant stated that English is not their first language)
—the spacing/font/length of their application
Etc.

There are tons of great players that care about the community that just aren’t skilled at expressing themselves in written form.

But the one thing that really bothers me is when someone rates an application negatively just because they don’t know the person. I see lots of “No Support” because they aren’t part of a particular social circle. And sometimes because the viewer has never had any personal interaction with the applicant.

Sometimes “No Support” is simply given because the viewer sees that everyone else rated it that way, or that their friends voted in that direction. All of the comments on the application begin to look the same because it’s a wave of either approval or disapproval. Sometimes “No Support” is added because the viewer has an application of their own and want to increase their chances of success. Sometimes “No Support” is written without a reason.

Tearing others down does not lift anyone up.

Moderator applications here are basically like roasting someone, but without the jokes. It is extreme criticism. Players sometimes get hostile, snarky, accusatory and often nitpick each other. Negativity only breeds more negativity.

Here is a way to improve Moderator Applications (that will never be implemented):
Make all of the comments and ratings invisible to the viewer (except staff). There will be less bias. The viewer will simply read the application without seeing what others have said. Without seeing how many support/no support votes they received. They can still add a message, but it would only be visible to staff.

Much love to all of the applicants.

 

I agree mostly with this since I have been applying for about 3 years and still Ive came across to many players who either are negative or hates me but hey there are still good players. Its just sometimes annoying when people give their own opinion on the color, typos, fonts, sizes and etc. For example
player 1: Please use other colors and space out.
Then another player comes and say to keep it that way. And its very confusing and somehow annoying that you try to please both players. I am one of the players who isnt good at expressing themselves and english isnt their first language therefore I make a lot of typoes but thanks for Lycel for helping me and telling me about grammarly which helped me a lot.

In every applicant there is a person who hates on him/her and give the applicant a no support cause of their bad history together in the past. People should give their feed back based whether if the applicant suits that position or not and if they are qualified or not. But sadly some people are like that.

Lastly, I agree with your suggestion about only letting staff view the application as it prevents the negative posts that can happen as some other servers' forums have. I strongly agree with all of these points and if you were active and applying for mod you would be a great moderator in my opinion.

 

Honestly this mod application tradition here is a joke.

When I want to apply for a job I send my application to the boss, I don't pin it at the entrance and ask the customers for review or if they want me to work here. It's not an election, it's more of a mascarade, as proven by the feedbacks that are given sometimes, which are plain ridiculous. Vikki has given some good examples.

Mod apps should be in a sub-forum like the ban appeals, where they can be viewed and replied to only by staff. Make them visible once they are accepted / denied if you want to, though this isn't really necessary.

 

Want me to make a suggestion about that or you do it? Or like it will be rejected like what vikki said..

 

You are young and full of hope, so you do that