Staff Search #14

Name: Elegant
Age: 20
Previous experience: I was a moderator like 3 years ago on Bleach gotei, I'd provide a link or two but the site went belly-up two years ago. I've also been a roleplay tutor on this site back in 2012.
Why should we choose you? I am an active member of the site and have been consistently for three years now, my anniversary just having passed a couple of weeks ago. I usually post at least once a day if not twice and work diligently to stay (mostly) on top of threads and bios. If I am not posting I am always on the cbox or lurking and spend most of my hours on this site, I love it to bits. I was even highly active when I was in New Zealand. I do not have any plans to travel for the next while and will not be going to school this semester either so I have a lot of free time!

When I am in the cbox I am helpful and I answer any question thrown my way, whether it has something to do with what may or may not be in a district or they just want to know how to post a wip. I have directed many a new writer to the rules and provided links to template, post and character guides. Sometimes when I am in the cbox an inappropriate item has been brought up or someone needs to be told off. I am not afraid to tell members when enough is enough but in a kind way, guiding in a gentle manner.

When I am not writing a post or in the chat box I am obsessively organizing my directory or on the wiki, updating pages. (Now that we have it back). I am not afraid to spend long hours updating information or moving threads about. Being any sort of help I can be is fine with me. I've literally just spent a year of my life doing the jobs that no one else wanted to do and I'm happy to do so as long as it relieves the stress of others.

I am a pretty good table/graphic maker and would love to help with anything that needs to be made in that regard, whether it is otm's or a layout for an announcement. In fact, the current layout we use for the pat was designed by me when I ran it as a roleplay tutor.

I think I can bring creative ideas to the table as staff, as I have come up with some ideas that were deemed worthy in the past, such as live tutoring. I'm a bubbly, happy person that gets along well with most everyone and I really enjoy getting to know the new writers in the cbox. I already read over bios in my spare time so spending time accepting them would be no biggy for me at all.

Lastly, I would very much like to be apart of running the site again as it is a very important place for me. I want to hep make others feel just as comfortable as I do when I am here and if I can do so by checking bios and guiding members along on their hazardous journey then I think that's wonderful.

Roleplay Sample: x

Other: Thank-you for your consideration! *finger guns* (pew pew)

Name: Meghan
Age: 20
Previous experience: Yes, I have seven or eight years of experience. The most notable being that I was an administrator for Hogwarts Interactive Roleplay for three years. I performed every duty there except for overseeing. Some of my responsibilities included sorting (reviewing bios, accepting or critiquing them for review), moderation (including mediating between members, checking posts for content, overseeing the cbox, performing routine work on the site such as locking, moving threads, combining threads, or pretty much anything you can imagine), and contributing to site ideas (I headlined several of the sites features and helped bring it to what it eventually came). I also co-ran the facebook and twitter. I stepped down from my role there mostly because I had started to focus on HGRPG more, but I did help them with their transition into their second generation, Hogwarts Reborn.

From that site I lead a transition into a Pirates of the Caribbean roleplay, which we decided to disband mid-project. However the shell of the site still remains here. I established the boards, helped with the rules, and oversaw several staff members as we worked on this transition.

I am currently working on a non-hunger games related forum (which I discussed with Lulu to make sure it was okay), and have been overseeing a team of staff there to help it come to life. Unfortunately it's been on semi-hiatus as I took a break due to multiple hospitalizations and the numerous doctors visits I had this summer. Since those are mostly over, we've been slowly working on it again.

My other experience includes administrating on several dead sims 2 writing sites and harry potter sites, moderating on multiple sites, and helping with projects/minor-moderation on the now dead Scribblers Abode, which in its hay-day had several thousand members.

That's about it for online experience! If you have any further questions just let me know. I have done pretty much everything a staff member could do on a forum.

Why should we choose you? I believe there are several key reasons I be chosen, but before I begin I want to speak on my recent absence. Over the summer I fell incredibly ill, and found out there was something wrong with the iron-count in my blood. It has taken countless hospital tests, doctors visits, and blood samples to sort through this issue, but they have finally been providing some answers. I have been on multiple medications for months now, and my health is finally settling down. Unfortunately during all of this I have been fighting an eating disorder I have had nearly my entire life. I have achieved great victory over it in the past several months, and this summer was really life-changing for me. I lurked on HGRPG nearly that entire time, but I did not have both the emotional energy and the physical energy to do much more than lurk. But I always knew what was happening here, and it was hard to stay silent for that long. However, I am quickly healing and my life is returning to normalcy. Since returning I have knocked out several things on my to-do list, and have been active. So if there is anything I ask of you in your consideration of me, it is to not hold my recent absence too much against me. It was absolutely necessary, but I do not foresee similar circumstances anytime soon since everything is being worked out.

Aside from that there are several things I think I would bring to the table. These include my love for this site, my longevity, my helpfulness, my friendliness, my experience, and previous contribution.

First off, the biggest reason I want to be a staff member is because I love HGRPG with all of my heart. I tell everyone about it. Literally I can sit and talk about the games for hours, or funny things members said, or the countless other going-ons this site has. I even once wrote an essay about roleplaying and used interviews and examples from this site to teach the general public about the incredibly fun experience that is text-based roleplay. I don't think any Hunger Games site can match this one. It's the biggest, the friendliest, the most welcoming, and the most smoothly run site I have ever seen. The staff take their jobs very seriously, and to me, it would be an honor to be able to contribute to that.

One of the reasons I think I am a good candidate is two-fold: I have been here a long time, and I have already contributed ideas to the site. I've been a member of HGRPG for over two and half years now, and it looks like I am going to be a member for many, many more. I know the ins-and-outs of almost every aspect of the site and the games, and have witnessed so much change since I joined. This is probably the fourth or fifth staff search I have applied for since getting here, and I have seen the staff grow and change many times over the years. Personally, I feel that I have established decent relationships with most members of the staff and it would not be much of a step-up to work with them. As for my contribution, I have suggested many ideas that had garnered support over the years, but the most notable idea I suggested was the wiki almost a year and a half ago. The wiki has taken off since then, with almost three wikithons under its belt. I helped create several pages there since then. My other ideas didn't necessarily gain actual ground, but they definitely had member support. Lastly, I spear-headed the well-known Birch family plot after I had my two tributes in the games. There have been multiple members of the family now who have died in the games, and there are more members involved in the plot than I can even count at this point.

The next two reasons I feel that I am a good candidate is that I believe I have a long history of helpfulness, and I have a good reputation on the site. I feel that I have established good relationships with many of the members on the site, and I have always enjoyed getting to know newer people. There were times where new people would pm me consistently and I would help them with whatever they needed help with. There were times when I would talk people through the combat system, or help them through various aspects of the games. I have answered many of the questions in the question & suggestion board, and whenever I am around in the cbox for a new person's question, I usually have an answer up my sleeve. I feel that I am knowledgable and have a lot of answers for people. Aside from that I love helping people, and tend to help no matter what site I'm on or what the problem is. As for friendliness, I lurk in the introductions board a lot and love welcoming people to the site.

Finally, I have the experience, as outlined above. It wouldn't be a hard transition for me to become a moderator here. In fact, I feel it'd be pretty easy. It'd mostly be a matter of getting use to the specific way that HGRPG staff runs, but I already have experience sorting applications and the other aspects required by a moderator on other sites. I even look over people's applications for them sometimes before they submit to help them get to an acceptable level. I know that experience isn't everything, but I feel that because of it, it makes me a better candidate.

I know that this has probably gotten kind of long. I just did not want to miss any parts of it. I really appreciate you taking the time to review this application and consider me, and even if I am not chosen this time I assure you I will continue to apply for probably about every staff search that ever occurs. I love this site so much, and I think whoever you choose is going to be a really great addition to your team. I'm excited to see who you'll pick! Woo!!

Roleplay Sample: Beatrice's death post

Other: Again, thank you for reviewing this application. Good luck on choosing!