Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions
Last updated: January 20th, 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 websites, 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. You accept and understand that the volunteer services you provide will be a donation and under no circumstances will you expect wages, salary, or benefits from Star by Star Gaming for the services provided during your time as a Volunteer Staff member. 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 gross negligence, willful misconduct, actions, statements, and or behaviors or any other conduct on your behalf, which cause or may give rise to criminal liability 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.
These Volunteer Staff Application Terms & Conditions can and may be updated at any time without notice at our discretion, so be sure to frequently check back for any updates to these terms and conditions. An effort to inform you that they've been updated will be made, but not promised, so it's your responsibility to periodically check back. By posting this application and or responding to application question (1.) with "Yes, I do agree to these terms and conditions.", you are accepting and agreeing to these terms and conditions indefinitely regardless of any changes or amendments to these terms and conditions unless or until you are no longer a Volunteer Staff member. If at any point you no longer agree to these terms and conditions, you must immediately resign from your Volunteer Staff position and cease to continue your volunteer services immediately.
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_0:1:121066498
(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? -
Head Professor Nikolas Prewett ; Nikolas Prewett
(1b) What is your current year level in-game? (MUST be at least 7th year to apply.) -
Prestige 2 Year 4
(1c) List any alternative Steam accounts you may have -
None
(2.) In which time zone do you reside? -
Central Standard Time, USA.
(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. -
On my days off if nothing is happening. From 8 a.m. - 12 a.m. On days though that I am working, will be in the evening roughly from 6p.m. or 7p.m. to midnight.
(3.) What is your age? -
25
(4.) Approximately, when was the first time that you joined our Hogwarts RP server and how did you initially discover it? -
Sometime 2016ish, I randomly came across it.
(4a) How can we be certain that you will remain active on the server upon being accepted for a volunteer staffing position? -
Because I am here for the roleplay and lore, I find it very intellectual and I love to incorporate lessons into my teachings.
(4b) Do you understand that you can be let go at any time for excessive inactivity at our discretion? -
Yes
(5.) Do you understand and agree to not only comply with, but also enforce the rules of the server when necessary? -
Yes
(5a) Please explain each of the main server rules and what they each mean, to convey to us that you understand and comprehend them wholly.
1. No fail RP:
FailRP is basically the failure of roleplaying, if you aren't going to accurately roleplay your character in the setting provided, then you have NITRP.
2. Be respectful:
Be courteous to other players and respect them and their decisions.
3. No RDM:
Random Death Match, meaning not to kill others without a purpose or reason.
4. Obey staff and RP leaders:
Students and Teachers must obey their superiors. Students must respect and listen to prefects and teachers while everyone listens to staff.
5. No free-spelling:
No shooting spells randomly that cause damage.
6. No metagaming:
Using a characters real life knowledge to influence the outcome of ingame happenings.
7. Do not mic spam or chat spam:
Do not flood the chat box with repetitive messages or continue to spam music and other shenanigans through your mic
8. Owlpost is for RP purposes only:
Meaning that the owlpost / advert system is only to be used for ingame purposes that are in roleplay perspective.
9. No ERP:
That is one gross, two illegal in most cases and just fround upon in like every server I have been a part of.
10. No exploiting or cheating of any kind:
Do not cheat by using hacks or other items, also don't exploit the map to get yourself somewhere you aren't supposed to.
(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) -
I am 25 years old, living in Oklahoma. I love Hogwarts and have been teaching on here for over five years now. I love using the resources I have to teach.
(7.) In your opinion, which quality of yourself do you feel that you need to improve on the most? -
My patience and depression.
(7a) In your opinion, which skill set of yours do you feel that you need to improve on the most? -
Nothing really. I have been playing so long, I don't think I have much to really improve on.
(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 would be able to be on the server mostly whenever other staff are sleeping and not currently on the server. (Like right now as I am currently making this.) so I could enforce the rules and get the people who are breaking rules and rdming into line. There are multiple teachers and students I have noticed recently not following rules and randomly dosing and sending students to detention which needs to stop.
(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) -
Yes, several over the years. My most recent one is owner of a server I was trying to keep alive but to no avail, with the decline of players on gmod.. didn't last.
(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). -
Yes. No clue on the time, I wanna say last ban on any server was maybe... two years ago?
(11.) In your opinion, are the server staff or the players of more importance? Why? -
The Players because without them there wouldn't be any roleplay. They are in need of rp ideas to keep the server alive and them coming back to continuously play. Basically we need to be marketing instances and ideas for our consumers "players" to keep them coming back for more.
(12) How would you rate your skills overall out of 10 (E.g., patience, response time, etc.) -
7. Just because my lack of patience does get to me sometimes.
(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? -
I would ask another staff member for assistance.
(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) -
N/A.
