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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1322648

Steam Name:

PZGrens

Time Zone:

Gmt

Steam Profile:

steamcommunity.com/id/PZGrens

SteamID:

STEAM_0:0:172887208

Why are you interested in being part of the Community Council?

I have alot of suggestions for zarp that aren't really specific to any of the server's but the community as a whole and considering that I have been staff on pretty much every server I feel that I have a good understanding of both the individual servers and the community and what can be done to improve it.

What role do you intend to carry out as a member of the Community Council?

Help make the learning curve for new players a little bit easier.

Being staff on all the servers I would always see people in the chat asking how to play or what to do ect and it was always difficult to try and explain everything whilst also carrying out staff duties and playing the game. I plan on making guides for all the servers (both text and YouTube videos) that staff can direct new players too in order to help them out with getting started. This way it's not just a one time explanation but instead a tool that anyone can use to keep going back to when they forget how to do something on an individual server.

The amount of people that lose interest after a while due to not understanding the game mode is immeasurable and it's always sad to see new players join and then leave straight away because of this. I plan on trying to make the process of joining the server and becoming a part of the community as easy as possible for a new player because unfortunately (As I'm sure many of us have experienced) it can be very daunting and difficult at first.

Why do you believe you should be selected for the Community Council?

Attitude

When I joined the community in 2019 I quickly gained the reputation of being a minge in the TTT community. I would rule break and try to make the server fun for myself by making it unfun for others which eventually got boring and I probably would have left at this point had I not started to like the community. My attitude slowly improved at this point and I wanted to go for staff so I signed up to the forums and applied but by the meeting I was banned and of course got denied. Since I had found the forums and was salty I started shit posting and necroposting at every opportunity until a punishment request from Nick got accepted and I came close to a ban.

Ever since then I have been working on my attitude in every single way possible. It took a while to shake my reputation of being a minge but eventually I managed to prove myself and got staff on TTT and became a part of the zarp community instead of just being on the outside looking in. I have not been punished on a single zarp server for 8ish months now and I think that is the perfect way to show that my attitude is the anti thesis of what it was when I joined TTT for the very first time. Of course I do a little trolling

but it is always in good faith and if someone doesn't like it I will stop.

If there are any concerns for my attitude they haven't been brought to my attention so please use the reply section to call me out.

Experience

I got my first zarp staffing position in October 2020 on TTT. Since then I have staffed on Deathrun, Minecraft, Surf and SSRP but unfortunately had to resign due to doing poorly in my mock exams. In this time I made little to no mistakes and tried my hardest to help out all the other staff members in any way possible. attending as many staff meetings as I could and giving my input whenever I felt something could be improved. I hope to rejoin the staff teams some time soon due to my grades improving but would like to become a community council member first, hence the application.

Activity

Unfortunately my activity has dipped a bit on all servers since resigning but it is slowly improving and I hope to get to a point where I can get as many hours as I used to whilst also maintaining my school work. I was pretty much on the ts whenever I was playing video games and always check the forums, meaning that if anyone has an idea that they would like to be suggested I would be very accessible. In terms of activity in the zarp community I averaged 100 hours a week at one point and since joining zarp have amassed 900 hours on gmod by only playing on zarp servers.

Because of my activity both in game and on the forums as both staff and a user I have the upmost faith in myself that I would be a good candidate for the community council.

Please if you have any doubts in my ability to perform well as a member of the community council reply to the application with criticisms. Thank you for reading and thanks everyone for the support!

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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1322652

Would be great what a lad	Nogtog Offline Legendary Member 76.1 Posts: 2989 Thanks received: 3434 Karma: -1005
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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1322657

#TTTakeover	Red. Offline Legendary Member ✨✨✨ Posts: 1212 Thanks received: 719 Karma: -129
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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1322674

Red. wrote: #TTTakeover You guys should TTtakeover your S2 before worrying about other servers!	Lefty. Offline Legendary Member Legendary Member Posts: 3878 Thanks received: 1811 Karma: 46
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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1322789

I added bbcode and rewrote some of the application. Please leave feedback everyone!	PZGrens Offline Expert Boarder You the shit to me Posts: 833 Thanks received: 548 Karma: -30
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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1322791

orbadoc wrote: Hiro. wrote: Red. wrote: #TTTakeover You guys should TTtakeover your S2 before worrying about other servers! maybe one at least on topic, because ttt Perhaps this post would make you happy?	PZGrens Offline Expert Boarder You the shit to me Posts: 833 Thanks received: 548 Karma: -30
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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1322795

orbadoc wrote:

PZGrens wrote:

orbadoc wrote:

Hiro. wrote:

Red. wrote:

#TTTakeover

You guys should TTtakeover your S2 before worrying about other servers!

https://i.gyazo.com/7e35d1f6ff1d4fd7eda9634113c1a41a.a

maybe one at least

on topic,

because ttt

Perhaps this post would make you happy?

i dont see how something i dont care about makes me happy, or how that has anything to do with what i said

Thank you for the feedback

look forward to playing EFT with you later

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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1323121

BUMP	PZGrens Offline Expert Boarder You the shit to me Posts: 833 Thanks received: 548 Karma: -30
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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1323139

Hi PZGren's
I have a question concerning your commitment. CC should be a role that requires a decent amount of time and commitment in my opinion. In the last month or so you've resigned from 5 staff roles, (here and here) all of which have been admin or moderator roles, thus displaying that you hadn't had them for a long time. One post stipulates lack of interest whilst the other indicates you falling behind on your studies being the reasons to you stepping down. What guarentee can we have as zarp community members that you won't do the same with this role? I fail to see you display any significant commitment to server roles and this behaviour fills me with doubt that you can apply yourself long-term for a position like this.
Hope you can change my mind but at the moment I can't support you in this application.
Euan

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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1323178

euan wrote:

Hi PZGren's
I have a question concerning your commitment. CC should be a role that requires a decent amount of time and commitment in my opinion. In the last month or so you've resigned from 5 staff roles, (here and here) all of which have been admin or moderator roles, thus displaying that you hadn't had them for a long time. One post stipulates lack of interest whilst the other indicates you falling behind on your studies being the reasons to you stepping down. What guarentee can we have as zarp community members that you won't do the same with this role? I fail to see you display any significant commitment to server roles and this behaviour fills me with doubt that you can apply yourself long-term for a position like this.
Hope you can change my mind but at the moment I can't support you in this application.
Euan

Thank you for bringing up your concern.

Since resigning I have been getting tuition at school and have brought my grades back up. I resigned because I was worried that the extra tuition and revision would take up a significant amount of my time but to my surprise I still have been getting 75+ hours every 2 weeks on zarp servers (not including the time I spend browsing the forums/discord). Obviously this means that me resigning could be viewed as a poorly made decision as I didn't need to but I disagree with this for 2 reasons; Life should come first always and that if I am not putting in any effort above the minimum requirements I shouldn't be staff. In fact I believe that me having higher standards for what effort should be put in by staff should be a positive as it shows I will not take this position just for a badge or something else but because I am committed to zarp.

As for me not committing to any individual server I don't see why this would be a problem since the role I wish to take on would require me putting in effort on all the servers. I do plan on becoming staff again on some servers soon as some people know but that won't be until a couple weeks from now.

Sorry if I haven't responded fully to your criticisms but to be honest I don't really understand some of what you are saying (in particular "all of which have been admin or moderator roles, thus displaying that you hadn't had them for a long time")

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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1323187

PZGrens wrote:

euan wrote:

Hi PZGren's
I have a question concerning your commitment. CC should be a role that requires a decent amount of time and commitment in my opinion. In the last month or so you've resigned from 5 staff roles, (here and here) all of which have been admin or moderator roles, thus displaying that you hadn't had them for a long time. One post stipulates lack of interest whilst the other indicates you falling behind on your studies being the reasons to you stepping down. What guarentee can we have as zarp community members that you won't do the same with this role? I fail to see you display any significant commitment to server roles and this behaviour fills me with doubt that you can apply yourself long-term for a position like this.
Hope you can change my mind but at the moment I can't support you in this application.
Euan

Thank you for bringing up your concern.

Since resigning I have been getting tuition at school and have brought my grades back up. I resigned because I was worried that the extra tuition and revision would take up a significant amount of my time but to my surprise I still have been getting 75+ hours every 2 weeks on zarp servers (not including the time I spend browsing the forums/discord). Obviously this means that me resigning could be viewed as a poorly made decision as I didn't need to but I disagree with this for 2 reasons; Life should come first always and that if I am not putting in any effort above the minimum requirements I shouldn't be staff. In fact I believe that me having higher standards for what effort should be put in by staff should be a positive as it shows I will not take this position just for a badge or something else but because I am committed to zarp.

As for me not committing to any individual server I don't see why this would be a problem since the role I wish to take on would require me putting in effort on all the servers. I do plan on becoming staff again on some servers soon as some people know but that won't be until a couple weeks from now.

Sorry if I haven't responded fully to your criticisms but to be honest I don't really understand some of what you are saying (in particular "all of which have been admin or moderator roles, thus displaying that you hadn't had them for a long time")

My concern was more with your ability for long term commitment. I mentioned the mod and admin roles as to climb ranks and make a difference on a server (which you clearly want to do as you're applying for this role) you need to assign a decent amount of your own time to that cause. With none of your previous roles being lead team (meaning that you haven't stayed or had the desire to progress to make a significant difference or initiate any change on these individual servers) I was worried about your commitment to a CC position in the same manner.
I do agree with you that life comes first and as you were struggling you made the right call resigning. If you now have more time and others believe you're right for the role then happy to change my mind on your application.

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[Community Council] PZGrens' Application 3 years 8 months ago #1323238

Thanks for applying for the Community Council! During our weekly meeting we reviewed your application and voted on it.

We just wanted to say Congratulations! The Community Council has voted to accept your application. You are now officially a member of the Community Council!

Community Council Meeting – Every Sunday 6:30 PM BST

You can now attend the weekly meeting which is held at the time mentioned above on the ZARP teamspeak server (IP: ts.zarpgaming.com). Attendees get the opportunity to talk about the progress on their tasks throughout the week.

Congratulations and thanks for supporting ZARP!