Pending SirLemoncakes's MC Staff Application

[SirLemoncakes]

MC Username

SirLemoncakes​

MC UUID

9dea7b0a-e266-4bfb-83d0​

Discord Tag

sirlemoncakes​

Your Age

33​

Your Time Zone

America/Los_Angeles​

How much time will you be able to dedicate to staffing?

Around 10 hrs per week.​

Previous Staffing Experience

I have previously been staff on STTT, SGM, and on Giant's Lair for about a month.

Just to get ahead of that, the reason I resigned was due to a situation that was later resolved. Essentially, I felt misled and disrespected by lack of communication. Since then, apologies have been made and the protocols have been changed. This should no longer be an issue.​

How do you intend to make the server welcoming and bring new players in?

As always whether or not I'm staff, I always reach out to help new or struggling players. I try to be friendly, explain how the plugins we have work, and give players information to smooth out their experience in game.

As for bringing new players in, I have extensive experience with advertising campaigns for my business, and I wouldn't mind helping out there.​

 

[cooldude42]

if I could choose one person in the mc server to be staff, it would be you.
You gave me a really cool pickaxe
Your a cool dude, massive +1 from me

 

[SirLemoncakes]

if I could choose one person in the mc server to be staff, it would be you.
You gave me a really cool pickaxe
Your a cool dude, massive +1 from me

Thanks, man. You're a pretty cool dude.

 

[ari]

I'm going to give this a neutral for the time being due to some concerns I have regarding your social conduct and communication style within the community. Now while I'm able to recognize your experience and your ability to positively interact with newer players (especially in Minecraft!!), I've also observed a repeating pattern of abrasive, almost passive aggressive behavior that has left other members personally feeling targeted &/or uncomfortable (outside of Minecraft).

I don't mean to personally attack you or anything, but I just see it as yknow a legitimate concern regarding consistency and creating a welcoming and professional environment for everyone, especially when dealing with members you may (or may not!) dislike or have personal grievances with.

 

[Fiz]

Hi Lemoncakes! Thanks for applying again.

I will say you were very active on the MC server and very helpful to those who needed it which was appreciated! I have no doubt that you would continue this as a Mod for Minecraft again.

I do have a concern though regarding your attitude towards members of the community who you may not personally like as much and may go as far as to antagonize them and provoke a reaction. This kind of behavior is unacceptable for any staff member (past, present, future) and I would like to know if this will continue or if you have anything to say regarding it?

I would also like to add, your last tenure ended very abruptly which makes me personally wary of a future pickup anytime soon due to how recent it was. So as of now I am neutral but leaning towards -1 at the moment.

 

[Noctorious]

Hello!

I've felt like Lemoncakes and I have shared a brainwave frequency in some staff-chats fairly recently, specific details I can't go into here. And being a central player in the resignation and talking with Lemoncakes during and after I can understand the feeling and actions that followed. I think recovering the relationships strained from that situation was something I was surprised and delighted to have seen happen and I think shows the ability to accept the faults and apologies of others which I think well aligns with the staffing philosophy that is being promoted by the leadership.

I am not well informed on the comments about antagonizing community members as it was not something I've personally witnessed or seen after. With that grain of salt in mind my initial opinion is a +1 for Lemoncakes returning to a staffing position

 

[SirLemoncakes]

I'm going to give this a neutral for the time being due to some concerns I have regarding your social conduct and communication style within the community. Now while I'm able to recognize your experience and your ability to positively interact with newer players (especially in Minecraft!!), I've also observed a repeating pattern of abrasive, almost passive aggressive behavior that has left other members personally feeling targeted &/or uncomfortable (outside of Minecraft).

I don't mean to personally attack you or anything, but I just see it as yknow a legitimate concern regarding consistency and creating a welcoming and professional environment for everyone, especially when dealing with members you may (or may not!) dislike or have personal grievances with.

So, this is in relation to Proper and Frosty, the only two people I have had any substantial negative interactions with. Part of that is that I started off on the wrong foot, misunderstanding the nature of the banter between Proper and I. Afterwards, the only thing that comes to mind is me joking about white people gentrifying heaven and gentrification being A-okay, actually. I intended that as an obvious joke, they took it as baiting, and I rolled with it making that a part of the joke.

If you check Discord chat logs, you'll find that otherwise I have either not interacted with them at all, or I have responded to Frosty on the MC server to help answer a question, or engaged with Proper on a friendly level. Ultimately, I don't have beef with anyone at this point. Proper has obviously been putting effort in and has been pleasant to be around. I haven't seen anything at all from Frosty, but I've heard he has also improved. As far as I'm concerned, I don't have any negative feelings towards anyone at this point.

That being said, I understand the perception from some staff. If you don't know me and mostly go off of the stories, it might seem like more than it actually was. I can take extensive screenshots of both instances later when I am home to post here.

But, while I was staff I aimed to avoid any interactions that could be combative with members of the server.

 

[SirLemoncakes]

Hi Lemoncakes! Thanks for applying again.

I will say you were very active on the MC server and very helpful to those who needed it which was appreciated! I have no doubt that you would continue this as a Mod for Minecraft again.

I do have a concern though regarding your attitude towards members of the community who you may not personally like as much and may go as far as to antagonize them and provoke a reaction. This kind of behavior is unacceptable for any staff member (past, present, future) and I would like to know if this will continue or if you have anything to say regarding it?

I would also like to add, your last tenure ended very abruptly which makes me personally wary of a future pickup anytime soon due to how recent it was. So as of now I am neutral but leaning towards -1 at the moment.

I already responded to a lot of this in my post to Ari.

As far as my abrupt resignation goes, I discussed this in detail with the parties involved, and the issue that lead to it was resolved in a satisfactory way.

I this instance, I was asked to reapply and after some consideration, I decided that I was content with how everything was resolved.

Also, if you have any other instances in the past year aside from what I have already discussed, I'm interested. We can't always control how we are interpreted, but there's always room to take feedback and learn to communicate better.