Site Staff: Open for applications!

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Harribo

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Hey TF2maps, so it's come to me and the rest of the TF2maps Moderators attention that it's a been a bit quiet on our front and quite a few of us have become rather inactive (myself included) and grown apart from the community in recent months. So, In light of that we're opening up a few positions on the site staff team to replace those who will be stepping down and to help breath new life into the team.

What we expect from members of our team I feel is best summed up by one of our ex Site Admins DJive here in the spoiler below:
http://www.theadminzone.com said:
A Moderator job is something that is serious. Consider as your virtual-every-day-job. It has a lot of responsibilities and you need to know with what kind of forum you are dealing with. This article will be telling you all tips and tasks to become an excellent moderator and make an excellent career. I’ve been in forums communities and working for forums for 8 years and I have the experience to tell you all the good parts and good info to be a good moderator.

Let’s say you just got hired on a forum as moderator. It’s the first time you work as a moderator and it’s the first time you go onto this forum where you are about to start your new job. Moderating is not just erasing, locking topics, it’s also about helping the administrator to find techniques to grow or to arrange something on the forum. The best thing to do, when you arrive, is propose few ideas to the administrator about how this forum can improve in global atmosphere, how to get members faster, strategies to make members active ones, etc. It’s all depending on the forum problems. He’ll see that you are a hard working person and you want, not only, contribute to moderating to the forum but also help the forum to grow and improve. Of course, you must still do your job; moderate.

Second of all, try to get to know the community of this forum especially the members frequenting mostly the sections that you moderate. Talk to them, let them propose ideas, try to tell them what projects you have in mind for this forum and tell them rules that you are imposing for each sections you moderate. Of course, you must be very active on this forum, especially try to develop these sections you are moderating by creating, everyday, new topics and reply quick so that the total posts on these sections become high. I have known a lot of moderators who tended to act superior to members by threatening these members of banning them or act as if the moderators knew more information’s, on these sections that they moderate, more than anyone else on this forum. You must not act well. Actually, you must act equal to all members. If you ban a member – if you have the right – you must create an extra topic with valuable reasons. Because, you don’t want, the next days, to have members complain of you because you had no valuable reasons! Then, the administrator might fire you!

Memorize that you need to be very active on the forum where you work and be nice and appreciated by all members. Your work needs to be good and then, once you’ll get a lot of jobs of moderating, your forum experience resume will be great!

Welcome to the TF2Maps.net Staff. The above section is a nice read over of whats expected by everyone here. Luckily for those who have Moderator experience you know already a lot of the time you spend here will not be putting out flames, fight s etc etc. Hopefully this now free time will be better used to support and improve the community.

The Moderators job in this community is relatively easy, or so we feel because most all the tasks focus on what you are apart of and interested in already.
  • Be Active.
  • Promote the Community.
  • Think of ways to Improve the Community.

However that being said it can still be tasking and does require a fair bit of free time.

We can't wait to see what you can improve and accomplish and let us know if there is any questions or anything we can help you with!

Welcome to the TF2Maps.net Staff !!

And thank You =)
So if you feel like you're interested in helping moderate, maintain, improve and expand the site and community, please post below stating your interest. In your post, please leave preferred form of contact and send me, theharribokid, a PM (Direct link) on why you'd like to join the site staff team, what you feel you'll bring to the team and site. Please also state if you have any previous moderation experience and any other skills that you feel could benefit the site and community.
 

Seba

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I guess I prefer Steam PM if I'm online, email if I'm not. What else needs including here?
 

Sel

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While giving other members of the community encouragement is very nice of you that's not what this thread is for and I don't want any popularity contests to arrise - theharribokid
 
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Sel

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I highly recommend that you treat it as such.

fascist

youre the reason we need new mods

~Infraction for Insulting a member, and a member of the staff at that. It's unacceptable. Either talk to me or any other member of the Site Staff if you have an issue with one of us and we'll discuss it. Keep your insults out of our community, be it here or the steam chat. - theharribokid

E: editing out my pointing out that it was obviously a joke is very cute :]

The subsequent infraction pertaining to the above comment by Sel has been reversed and was due to us both making edits within a minute of each other, the proposed "editing out" by me was as follows:

e: jesus harribo i was obviously joking
- theharribokid

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Also, we really need more server staff more than we need more mods imo. (like I guess there's obviously overlap, but the site itself seems to be fine for the most part?)
 
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Fruity Snacks

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E: editing out my pointing out that it was obviously a joke is very cute :]

I seriously doubt you're joking. If you want to go ahead and complain how bad I may or may not have been, you can PM me here on the forums.

Also, we really need more server staff more than we need more mods imo. (like I guess there's obviously overlap, but the site itself seems to be fine for the most part?)

It was decided to condense all the staff into just the overarching "Site staff" title since the server is more/less self sustaining now (it's all fancy and the like).
 

Sel

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I seriously doubt you're joking. If you want to go ahead and complain how bad I may or may not have been, you can PM me here on the forums.

I assure you if I thought you were a huge piece of shit of a staff member I would have no problem straight up telling you that.
 

Trotim

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I seriously doubt you're joking. If you want to go ahead and complain how bad I may or may not have been, you can PM me here on the forums.

To be honest it was obvious to me he was joking. I don't think anyone can really complain too much about your contributions

If you want to keep this thread clean by the way you may want to split the off-topic responses into their own thread
 
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I know I will never fill the huge gap filled by our greatest admin ever leaving (okrag), but im in chat a lot and i love tf2. steam/tf2m pm is gr8.
 

_FR_Starfox64

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I'm free and have some knowledges as admin so if your interested PM me on forums.

Having a French could be cool :)
 

GPuzzle

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I'm free and have some knowledges as admin so if your interested PM me on forums.

Having a French could be cool :)

You have ten or eleven posts and your map was a box.
 

AngryAngus

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This is not based on maps peoples made.

Yes 10 posts, AND...
To be frank, why should you get admin over veterans in this community. How do we know you're trustworthy? How do we know you'll contribute to the community?

I think it'd be smarter to interact more with the community, like joining group chat, playing in gamedays, and posting in the forums, so we get to know you before you make any move to get admin. Because at this point, I've not noticed you in chat or gamedays once.
 

GPuzzle

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Now I don't know if this is AngryAngus or DiplomaticAngus.
 
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