Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions
Last updated: January 4th, 2021
These Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”) and Star by Star Gaming ("Company", “we”, “us”, or “our”), concerning your volunteer services on any of our services and or platforms such as and not limited to, our website, game servers, any other media form, media channel, console or PC application, mobile website or mobile application related, linked, or otherwise connected thereto. You agree that by posting this application and or responding to application question (1.) with "Yes, I do agree to these terms and conditions.", you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by all of these terms and conditions. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ALL OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, THEN YOU ARE EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED FROM APPLYING FOR A VOLUNTEER STAFF POSITION AND YOU MUST DISCONTINUE YOUR APPLICATION PROCESS IMMEDIATELY.
You accept and understand that you are not any form of an employee, contractor, or agent of Star by Star Gaming.
We reserve the right to remove or let go of any volunteer staff member for any reason and at any time at our sole discretion.
Any and all actions, including and not limited to, player and or user punishment, such as issued bans or otherwise on our game servers, websites, or other platforms, as well as any statements made by you, or any behavioral misconduct, does not express the views of Star by Star Gaming and are conducted at your sole discretion. You agree that all of these are of your own and you withhold full personal responsibility. Your actions, behavior, and or statements will be taken or given at your sole discretion and you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold us harmless, including our subsidiaries, affiliates, and all of our respective officers, agents, partners, contractors, volunteers, volunteer staff, and employees, from and against any loss, damage, liability, claim, or demand due to the outcomes of your actions, statements, and or behaviors while performing volunteer staff services for Star by Star Gaming.
IN NO EVENT WILL WE OR OUR DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, VOLUNTEERS, VOLUNTEER STAFF, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING LOST PROFIT, LOST REVENUE, LOSS OF DATA, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM YOUR VOLUNTEER SERVICES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
Please do not remove or delete these terms and conditions from your application, otherwise your application will be considered and declared void.
Applicants Steam ID - STEAM_0:1:17186722
(1.) Do you agree to and accept the Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions? If so, please answer with "Yes, I do agree and accept these terms and conditions." - Yes, I do agree and accept these terms and conditions.
(1a) What is your most recent or commonly known in-game name or alias? - Simon Linden-Blackfyre and Skrrt Cobain.
(1b) What is your current year level in-game? (MUST be at least 7th year to apply.) - 7th year Master Prestige
(2.) In which time zone do you reside? - CET
(2a) Please provide the hours of the day that you are the most active on the Hogwarts RP server according to CST (Chicago, US), so the managers and staff know when they can expect to see you. - It really depends what my work schedule looks like. Between 9AM - 3PM if I'm working mornings and 5PM - 10PM if I'm working night.
(3.) What is your age? - 24
(4.) Approximately, when was the first time that you joined our Hogwarts RP server and how did you initially discover it? - Friend sent me a youtube in January 2018 and been a member of the community since then.
(4a) How can we be certain that you will remain active on the server upon being accepted for a volunteer staffing position? - I enjoy playing on the server and I'm more and more active for everyday that goes.
(4b) Do you understand that you can be let go at any time for excessive inactivity at our discretion? - Of course
(5.) Do you understand and agree to not only comply with, but also enforce the rules of the server when necessary? - Yes
(5a) When listing the 10 basic rules, please explain what they each mean to convey to us that you understand and comprehend them wholly.
List Rules below:
1:No Fail RP:
Dont do anything that would go against the RP of the job you're playing. For example someone playing as the Herbology teacher talking about smoking gillyweed and a HoM teacher having a rap battle in their class would be fail RP.
2: Disrespectful, hateful, and offensive behavior or speech towards others is not allowed:
Dont be disrespectful to other people, dont be using derogatory terms, just be a decent human being. Peeves can bend this rule a little bit and say disrespectful things to other players within RP, but should also never go too far and absolutely never use derogatory terms.
3: No Random DeathMatch (RDM):
Dont attack or kill other players without a valid RP reason. A student killing a prefect or a snatcher killing Voldemort is two examples of RDM.
4: Obey Staff and Roleplay leaders:
Always obey your RP leaders. If Voldemort is telling you as a snatcher to only snatch Hufflepuffs you better listen to him. In some cases their might be instances where your RP leader is telling you to do something that would break a server rule. Then there is an exeption and you can report that to the server staff. Obey Staff part is explanatory. Listen to staff.
5: No massive free spelling:
Usually this only applies to damaging spells, which means that if a someone is free spelling those types of spells they might get kicked or banned for it. Non-damaging is often solved within RP (Prefect sending naughty students to detention). But in some cases where that goes to far a staff member might have to step in.
6: No Metagaming:
Dont use outside information to get an edge during RP. For example, dont tell your friend in discord that youre getting snatched and make him swoop in and save you or call out a unrevealed snatcher.
7: No Microphone/Chat spam:
Don't make obnoxious sound or play music through your mic. There is cases where this can be allowed, like if a staff gives you permission to play some music. But the song should never have anything in it that would break rule 2. Chat spam part is the same, dont flood any of the chats with unecessary spam.
8: Owlpost is for significant roleplay purposes only:
Only use Owlpost for RP. For example you may use it to claim the QP, tell the server that PTS is active in a classroom or to sell a snatch. Use the OOC if you want tell everyone that a party at Hagrid is occuring.
9: No ERP (Erotic Roleplay):
This server for all ages, so dont do anything sexual with other yourself or other players in either voice or chat. No one wants that.
10: Do not avoid the AFK system or map exploit:
Dont create macros to keep yourself from logging out to farm experience. If you find a exploit in the map, dont use it and tell staff about it.
(6.) Tell us a little about yourself and why you would like to be accepted for a volunteer staffing position on SBS. (100 words or less) - Sup, name is Simon and I'm just your regular swedish guy that likes sport, beer and video games. Used to be staff here around 2 years ago, but had to resign because of lack of time. I'm back now and would love to be back on the team so I could help out on the server again.
(7.) In your opinion, which quality of yourself do you feel that you need to improve on the most? - Probably my vocabulary. English isnt my native tongue so usually I use non-"professional" words as fillers when I'm talking.
(7a) In your opinion, which skill set of yours do you feel that you need to improve on the most? - The same thing I answered in the question above.
(8.) How would having you on our volunteer staff team benefit our server and what qualities set you apart from the rest of the applicants? - I used to be staff before so I know quite a lot about staffing already. I have also always had the mindset that staff is here to help players and make their experience on the server as fun as possible. I was never the staff member that was quick to ban someone, since I see that as the last solution.
(9.) Have you ever previously maintained a game server staffing position, or currently are, on any other Garry's Mod servers? If so, which ones, and in which staffing positions? (List them if possible) - Only staffed here before
(10.) Have you ever previously been banned on any Garry's Mod or SBS servers? If yes, then please list approximately when, how long, and the reasoning(s). - No
(11.) In your opinion, are the server staff or the players of more importance? Why? - Equally important. Without staff the server would be literally utter chaos, but without any players there would not be a playerbase.
(12) How would you rate your skills overall out of 10 (E.g., patience, response time, etc.) - Patience 10: As I said earlier, this is one of my strong suits.
Response 10: At least when I was staff before I was really quick at responding to calls.
Approachability 8: I'm always trying to be easy to approach and talk to, but sometimes I'm just to much in my own world.
(13.) If you find yourself in a 'staff-sit' where you're unsure of how to fairly distribute punishment and or handle the situation or discrepancy at hand, what do you do? - Try to get ahold of an admin or higher up and see if they can help me with the situation. If there is no one around, I can always see if any other moderator is online to help me. If neither, then I'll try with the best of my ability to make it as fair as possible.
(14.) You both understand and realize, that by applying for a volunteer staffing position on the server, you are sacrificing the complete freedom of being able to role-play and or socialize freely all the time without any interruptions, and are obligated to handle all server issues and or volunteer staff position tasks at hand no matter the situation and to the best of your abilities? - Yes
(15.) If applicable, please provide a list of all your previous volunteer staff applications, provide a link to them if possible, and list any reasons why they may have been locked. If they were previously accepted, please provide a short explanation of why you are no longer volunteer staff at the time of this application. (Disregard if this is your first application) -
https://starbystargaming.com/showthread?tid=2720 Accepted, but resigned because of lack of time.
EDIT: PS: I know I came back not that long ago, but I thought why not make an application now, worst case its just going to be open a longer time.
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You're still a cool dude
