Posts by erin

What is your Minecraft name and time zone where you normally are online? (e.g. GMT+1:00 or MST). Your Minecraft name must match your forum name or your Minecraft name must be in your forum profile.

shehxlk - BST (UTC +1)

Do you have a Discord account? If so, post your username#discriminator here.

erin#0001

What date were you appointed to Admin? At least 12 months of active participation must have passed since your initial promotion date.

June 2 2021

Unlike Admin, Senior Admin is primarily a leadership position and you must be able to lead other admins in a mature manner and be a responsible representative of Total Freedom. Provide a paragraph of your accomplishments and why you think you’d made a good Senior Admin.

During my time as admin, I've developed confidence, critical thinking and leadership skills as I've learned on the job and used the experience I've gained by participating in the community to further my efforts to make it a safer and more enjoyable place for those of us within here. This includes helping out the community in any way I can - in October I was appointed as assistant admin officer, a position I still hold to this day, which helped me broaden my skills of leadership, working with others alongside me and making decisions which were often difficult to make. I've also been entrusted with reviewing not only admin applications but also the hub moderator applications - something which has tested my critical thinking abilities when it comes to weighing up arguments either side, with as little bias as possible.

All in all, I've given a lot to this community in my time here and I feel I've sufficiently proven myself to be capable.

How often will you be able to perform administrative duties? (Including the server, forum, and Discord). State either daily, several times a week, once or twice a week, or less than once a week.

I have a daily presence on the discord and forum, and I'm able to get in-game several times a week.

Names of Senior Admins who have recommended you. You are required to have at least 1 recommendation.

@"Ryan"#1 @"RedEastWood"#47 @"Luke"#19

Have you read and understood the note below? (Yes or no).

Yes.

Note: If someone asks you a direct question, you should reply. If someone objects and give reasons that you believe are incorrect, you may reply to state why you believe the reasons are incorrect; do not rage or get dramatic - just state facts and do not reply more than once; no debates.

Note from me: this has been edited right after posting to fix up some of the markup.

↩  Miwojedk

That's a question I can't answer.

More regulation and stricter control sounds good on paper, but there are multiple caveats. Mainly the huge number of firearms owned by people who, under this new hypothetical legislation, aren't allowed to own them. Hard to just take them off the people especially as they presumably aren't gonna just hand them over all the time.

There's also other issues such as the potential black market - one of the reasons why tobacco isn't banned.

So while I do support the idea, I accept it would be very difficult to legislate.

↩  Noah
There's a difference between a mass shooting and a mass killing. I went by the numbers written on Wikipedia, which seem to have the same rule but involve people being shot and not just killed.

I see your point but I personally wasn't up for sifting through all the raw data - and the 2018 shooting I referenced in the UK had 0 fatalities.

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↩  Miwojedk This is false.

Since the Plymouth shooting on August 12 2021, there have been 531 mass shootings in the US, resulting in the deaths of 575 people.

And in between the two most recent shootings in the UK, the 12 August 2018 Moss Side shooting and 12 August 2021 Plymouth shooting, there were 1,588 shootings in the US - and each year they have become more frequent. I haven't looked into death statistics in the US for this period since I'm on mobile and the US has a separate article for each year which makes navigation quite difficult.

Even if you adjust for the US having 5 times more people, there are still 150x more shootings in the same time period - and the period I sampled was made to intentionally include 2 shootings in the UK.

Obviously there still are shootings, but the regulations the UK has makes them much fewer and further between.

Sorry for being late to this, but as you've more than met the activity requirement for inactivity reinstatement, welcome back.

Yes, most phones these days have technology where they can delay the charge until the morning. The phone also learns what time you usually wake up and pick up the phone at and times it for then. Keeps everything safe as possible while giving you the same experience.

↩ @'wxtermelon' that's not bias.. as I said in my original first post I wasn't going to be removing any votes anymore made before I locked the thread.

There's no bias because no matter who wrote the vote on whose application or what reasoning they gave it wasn't gonna get removed after I realised it's not a good idea.

I got backlash from those whose votes I removed back on Alco's app. After recent events I've realised it's not a good idea.

So I explained why I stopped doing it full stop.

↩ @'glaucus atlanticus'

↩  Alco_Rs11

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↩  erin However obviously there’s a bit of disparity here I agree, so in future, especially with this suggestion, I won’t be removing votes that happen to be before the thread is locked.

↩  Alco_Rs11 bias much?

Don't know what possible bias you could be referring to. Here's why I removed those votes.

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↩  erin To go by the book I decided to remove them since voting wasn’t meant to take place yet.

I was strictly going by the book since the thread should not have been able to receive replies, something which I didn't see any downsides to at the time.

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↩  MagAgentV3 Also It makes no sense that your votes were nuked but on Telesphoreo app they did not nuke any votes so yeah makes no sense.

To answer this - the few votes made on alco's application were made within 20 minutes and were all vouches with short reasoning. To go by the book I decided to remove them since voting wasn't meant to take place yet.

But with Tele's app, it had several hours worth of discussion, paragraphs and evidence and such. A lot of effort had been put into the discussion and I didn't feel it was my place to delete all that typing out of existence especially when it would just be retyped after the voting opens.

However obviously there's a bit of disparity here I agree, so in future, especially with this suggestion, I won't be removing votes that happen to be before the thread is locked.

Unfortunately voting for this thread will open on Friday, but I will leave votes on this up.

Object, we need less diversity

Vouch I don't really see any reason not to do this. While I get it may still need to be called freedom-01 in some areas I can't see why we can't just change the name for the front end.

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↩  matscalle he just wants to be able to have his musicslayer role above his masterbuilder role

The problem that myself and others have identified is that he has already made this specific request to discord staff and been rejected as far as I know.

Instead of accepting that, he's written a suggestion with poor logic to try and get every discord only role moved above server roles - and by proxy, get him what he asked for in the first place.

I personally don't feel the suggestion is a very good idea in the first place, but I also dislike the clear motive behind it as well. We all obviously benefit from the suggestions we write but trying to go about getting your way in this fashion is not on, in my eyes.

I will say that I find it a little bothering that it's a full 5 weeks from applications open until they get reviewed, and even if you apply on the last possible day you still have a 3 week wait. That's my personal view, anyway. It's quite lengthy and for seemingly little reason. I do however want to keep a period for senior only discussion. I feel there are often concerns to eligibility that may need to be brought up in private so as to reduce the amount of drama and/or witch hunting that takes place.

As far as I'm concerned, senior apps have no voting for 2 weeks just because that's how it is, does anyone with more experience in this community have any idea why the system was set up in the first place?

What was supposed to happen, is there something I'm missing?

I've retagged it as sticky again.. might fix the issue.

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↩  DragonSlayer2189 However I do still believe the other roles should show up over the normal ones as well

Why? You've talked of how someone works hard for mentally unstable but has an inconvenience of being admin/master builder as if that isn't something which requires more work than just playing on the server.

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↩  DragonSlayer2189 perhaps what we could do is have 2 versions of these roles, one which is set to be above and one which is below, especially since there aren’t many of these roles, it would be feasible to have a system where an individual could chose to have their cosmetic roles shown or not.

This is incredibly complicated and I would not envy the discord admins who have to sift through a strange system of having two roles for everything.

Lol, object.

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↩  DragonSlayer2189 I think it kinda sucks when people work so hard to get something like Mentally Unstable, but don’t actually get the recognition for it because they are like an admin or something.

Personally, I would find that it kinda would suck if someone worked very hard for months to gain community trust to get admin, but don't actually get the recognition for it because they happen to be in the top 10 monthly playtime.

Or when someone spends fucking ages learning how to become a good builder only for again, the fact that they're active on the server to trump it.

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↩  DragonSlayer2189 MusicSlayer2189

It's quite evident to me that the entire rhetoric behind this suggestion is just to get your own personal role above master builder so you can flex about having a cool colour, something you've asked for quite a bit after your suspension. You've just added mentally unstable and server booster to this suggestion without actually thinking it through.

Also, senior admins have some minor discord moderation privileges. Moving cosmetic roles above actual roles on the server would mean a senior admin would be unable to timeout a server booster since the booster is above them in the role hierarchy.

I just don't see any good reason in favour of this.

Approved.

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