My opinion about the helper application process.
Disclaimer: I dont want to criticize the staff members personally and wont share their names here. If the staff team wants more explaination, they can private message me. All my arguments are based on Bedrock, because this is my main platform.
Yesterday I saw this thread about the new recruitment update.
My first impressions were good, because Cubecraft keeps improving the Staff team.
In my opinion, they can improve a lot of things about the application process.
Thats the reason I wanted to make this thread.
The different stages
As a lot of people will know, there are different stages during the process.
In this "paragraph" I will give my feedback on those stages.
First of all, the "New" stage, there is nothing wrong with it.
Its really understandable it takes 2-3 days to process.
But if you pass this stage, you will reach the "Considering" stage.
This means you have met the minimum requirements.
In this stage they will be closely evaluating and discussing you as an applicant.
You dont know how long this will take, but you need to be patience.
After this stage, the status of your application can turn into "Interview" or "Unsuccesful".
I have not reached any stage after this, so cant give my opinion about the next stages.
My applications
I have tried becoming helper four times now.
The first time was 3 May 2020, this was unsuccesful.
I cant complain about this one, because I was toxic towards the community and wasnt active on the forum/Discord.
The reapply: June 5. (Remember this; one month)
June 5: the next try.
This try was unsuccesful as well, with the reason inactivity on the forums.
So I decided to be more active on the forums.
The reapply: July 5. (One month)
July 5: the third reapply.
Like you all can expect now, this one was unsuccesful as well.
They were a bit worried about my behaviour towards other players, observed inappropriate and unacceptable messages and noticed a lack of activity around the network.
This was the period I worked nearly 40 hours a week, so I played less.
But even when I played less, they noticed more bad behaviour?
I had no idea what inappropriate things they were talking about and wanted to know it so I could improve myself.
The staffmembers couldnt give any information, but only a few examples would have helped me.
This was really disappointing.
Reapply was allowed August 5. (One month)
February 10: the fourth try.
After a long time of improving myself, I submitted my fourth application.
I improved my activity on the forums and Discord, and wanted to be friendly on the server.
The last thing succeeded the most: people started recognizing me on Eggwars Mega (Bedrock), I have started conversations and became part of the community on Bedrock YouTube channels.
All of this helped: I reached the "Considering" stage.
In the period between the 10th of February and yesterday the staff team didnt communicate anything towards me.
So I kept on playing and helping on the forum/Discord server.
I know quality goes above quantity, but I got 27 succesful reports and started chatting with people even more.
All of this would have been enough to pass the considering stage I thought, but suddenly it was "Unsuccesful".
The reasons for it:
The warnings were necroposting on the 22th of December and chatting in #Staff-help on the Discord server February 22.
But the chatting in #Staff-help was a mistake and I wanted to help someone.
I know its an important rule on the Discord server, but this mistake wont happen again.
The necroposting warning from December wont be relevant since the application was accepted in February?
This will mean you cant become staffmember after receiving a warning once. And we are talking about a warning, not even a punishment!
Again there was the inappropriate language reason without even knowing what I said wrong,
Maybe it was the same as all times before? Without any feedback I cant improve it I guess?
This is my biggest complainment about the whole process.
After the "Considering" stage they need to give some specific feedback so people know more about the things they did wrong.
Without giving feedback the whole waiting is wasted time for the applicant and staff team.
The next weird thing is the date for reapply, this is May 21 now.
In the application process thread they say the default time is one month to reapply, so why is it 100 days now?
This seems really long compared to my previous mistakes on the other unsuccesful applications.
How can it be improved?
The first thing they need to improve is adding a time for the "Considering" stage.
Now the applicant needs to wait very long without hearing anything from the staff members.
My suggestion is making the proces 28-30 days, and give any feedback after 14 days.
If they do this, the applicant can improve it for the last 14 days.
The second improvement could be giving more specific feedback after an unsuccesful application.
Only saying "inappropriate language" isnt enough if someone got this three times before.
Adding more examples would lead to less unsuccesful applications and better improvement.
My last suggestion would be only using recent warnings after the considering stage started.
Otherwise people will never become staff member after receiving a warning.
If it was a punishment for really bad behaviour it would be relevant, but warnings arent in my opinion.
What now?
I hope the application process will be more detailed on the forums and they keep accepting more staffmembers.
Now it seems like Im answering more forum threads then all staff members combined. (I know this statement is a little bit extreme, but I want to make a point).
On top of that, the Bedrock server needs way more helpers because the amount of helpers isnt growing the same as the Minecraft server is growing.
The last thing I want is more information about the 100 days reapply time, because the requirements for helper are playing on the Bedrock server for two months. This means my friend can start playing and apply for helper before I can? Kinda weird, isnt it?
Kind regards,
Vrachtschip // Jeffrey
Disclaimer: I dont want to criticize the staff members personally and wont share their names here. If the staff team wants more explaination, they can private message me. All my arguments are based on Bedrock, because this is my main platform.
Yesterday I saw this thread about the new recruitment update.
My first impressions were good, because Cubecraft keeps improving the Staff team.
In my opinion, they can improve a lot of things about the application process.
Thats the reason I wanted to make this thread.
The different stages
As a lot of people will know, there are different stages during the process.
In this "paragraph" I will give my feedback on those stages.
Its really understandable it takes 2-3 days to process.
But if you pass this stage, you will reach the "Considering" stage.
This means you have met the minimum requirements.
In this stage they will be closely evaluating and discussing you as an applicant.
You dont know how long this will take, but you need to be patience.
After this stage, the status of your application can turn into "Interview" or "Unsuccesful".
I have not reached any stage after this, so cant give my opinion about the next stages.
My applications
I have tried becoming helper four times now.
The first time was 3 May 2020, this was unsuccesful.
I cant complain about this one, because I was toxic towards the community and wasnt active on the forum/Discord.
The reapply: June 5. (Remember this; one month)
June 5: the next try.
This try was unsuccesful as well, with the reason inactivity on the forums.
So I decided to be more active on the forums.
The reapply: July 5. (One month)
July 5: the third reapply.
Like you all can expect now, this one was unsuccesful as well.
They were a bit worried about my behaviour towards other players, observed inappropriate and unacceptable messages and noticed a lack of activity around the network.
This was the period I worked nearly 40 hours a week, so I played less.
But even when I played less, they noticed more bad behaviour?
I had no idea what inappropriate things they were talking about and wanted to know it so I could improve myself.
The staffmembers couldnt give any information, but only a few examples would have helped me.
This was really disappointing.
Reapply was allowed August 5. (One month)
February 10: the fourth try.
After a long time of improving myself, I submitted my fourth application.
I improved my activity on the forums and Discord, and wanted to be friendly on the server.
The last thing succeeded the most: people started recognizing me on Eggwars Mega (Bedrock), I have started conversations and became part of the community on Bedrock YouTube channels.
All of this helped: I reached the "Considering" stage.
In the period between the 10th of February and yesterday the staff team didnt communicate anything towards me.
So I kept on playing and helping on the forum/Discord server.
I know quality goes above quantity, but I got 27 succesful reports and started chatting with people even more.
All of this would have been enough to pass the considering stage I thought, but suddenly it was "Unsuccesful".
The reasons for it:
So when I saw this I was really dissapointed and asked the staff member for more info about this.
The warnings were necroposting on the 22th of December and chatting in #Staff-help on the Discord server February 22.
But the chatting in #Staff-help was a mistake and I wanted to help someone.
I know its an important rule on the Discord server, but this mistake wont happen again.
The necroposting warning from December wont be relevant since the application was accepted in February?
This will mean you cant become staffmember after receiving a warning once. And we are talking about a warning, not even a punishment!
Again there was the inappropriate language reason without even knowing what I said wrong,
Maybe it was the same as all times before? Without any feedback I cant improve it I guess?
This is my biggest complainment about the whole process.
After the "Considering" stage they need to give some specific feedback so people know more about the things they did wrong.
Without giving feedback the whole waiting is wasted time for the applicant and staff team.
The next weird thing is the date for reapply, this is May 21 now.
In the application process thread they say the default time is one month to reapply, so why is it 100 days now?
This seems really long compared to my previous mistakes on the other unsuccesful applications.
How can it be improved?
The first thing they need to improve is adding a time for the "Considering" stage.
Now the applicant needs to wait very long without hearing anything from the staff members.
My suggestion is making the proces 28-30 days, and give any feedback after 14 days.
If they do this, the applicant can improve it for the last 14 days.
The second improvement could be giving more specific feedback after an unsuccesful application.
Only saying "inappropriate language" isnt enough if someone got this three times before.
Adding more examples would lead to less unsuccesful applications and better improvement.
My last suggestion would be only using recent warnings after the considering stage started.
Otherwise people will never become staff member after receiving a warning.
If it was a punishment for really bad behaviour it would be relevant, but warnings arent in my opinion.
What now?
I hope the application process will be more detailed on the forums and they keep accepting more staffmembers.
Now it seems like Im answering more forum threads then all staff members combined. (I know this statement is a little bit extreme, but I want to make a point).
On top of that, the Bedrock server needs way more helpers because the amount of helpers isnt growing the same as the Minecraft server is growing.
The last thing I want is more information about the 100 days reapply time, because the requirements for helper are playing on the Bedrock server for two months. This means my friend can start playing and apply for helper before I can? Kinda weird, isnt it?
Kind regards,
Vrachtschip // Jeffrey
