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_0:1:166586616
(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? - Bathilda Enos/ Bathilda Spankie Mcguffins
(1b) What is your current acuity level in-game? (MUST be at least Acuity 7 to apply.) - Prestige 7 Year 7
(1c) List any alternative Steam accounts you may have - NA
(2.) In which time zone do you reside? - Central
(2a) Please provide the hours of the day that you are the most active on the Galaxy of Magic server according to CST (Chicago, US), so the managers and staff know when they can expect to see you. - usually afternoon time
(3.) What is your age? -NA
(4.) Approximately, when was the first time that you joined our Galaxy of Magic server and how did you initially discover it? - HWRP like Feb of 2019
(4a) How can we be certain that you will remain active on the server upon being accepted for a volunteer staffing position? - I enjoy the server I don't plan on going anywhere.
(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: Best way to describe would be don't snatch without smoke(idk what the spell is called), or don't use knowledge after you've died. don't arrest someone who had a DOS but they died.
2. Be respectful: don't be rude. Respect those around you.
3. No RDM: do not kill without RP reason.
4. Obey staff and RP leaders: Listen to Staff and RP leaders within reason.
5. No free-spelling: don't use damage spells with rp reason or to disrupt others RP experience.
6. No metagaming: don't use out of game knowledge to help/give you an advantage.
7. Do not mic spam or chat spam: playing music through your mic, mass posting stuff over and over.
8. Telemail is for RP purposes only: telemail to be used to RP purposes only (announcements, selling snatches, teachers announcing class)
9. No ERP: No sexual or erotic role play.
10. No exploiting or cheating of any kind: don't use bind/macros to keep yourself from getting kicked
(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'm honest and straight to the point. I do not like to staff with an iron fist. I am very simple person very easy going and easy to get along with if you take the chance to actually get to know me.
(7.) In your opinion, which quality of yourself do you feel that you need to improve on the most? - tone of voice, I can come off as a bit rude/bitchy/intimidating without even meaning to.
(7a) In your opinion, which skill set of yours do you feel that you need to improve on the most? - honestly I haven't been on the team so might lack the skill on how things are currently being handled. I tend to try and go by what things were like when I was an admin.
(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'd like to think of myself as in touch with the community and easy to come to if a problem arises. I know some people say I'm intimidating at first but id like to think I'm easy to talk to.
(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) - was an admin for HWRP
(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). - no
(11.) In your opinion, are the server staff or the players of more importance? Why? - players. without the players the staff wouldn't have a server to staff on.
(12) How would you rate your skills overall out of 10 (E.g., patience, response time, etc.) -
Patience - 9/10 - Patience is very important bc sometimes some of the players can really send you into a frenzy
Flexibility- 10/10 - it sounds like I have no life but I work from home so I can always be reached lol
Response time- 10/10 again I'm always at my computer as I work from home.
Communication - 10/10 - I have no problem communicating with anyone about anything
(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? - Ask another staff member how they think it should be handled.
(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) - on HWRP I did but don't have the link
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