Hello I am fourteen years of age; this blog discusses age, mentality, and the great want for a staff position.


I make an effort to be as even-handed as promising although very challenging, and use predominantly my own familiarity from when I was twelve years of age and now fourteen.


At the moment, in the break of two years, I would wish for to state my approach has altered, I am no longer as animated by the surroundings around me and as wanting to do masses of actions at once, in other words I consider I’ve calmed down over that diminutive gap of time, I do not mean to style this big-headedly or egotistically but minimally, I’ve noticed myself and my best friend who was also very parallel to me, we have calmed down.


I think, the dissimilarity from a six year old to an eight year old truthfully isn’t much, maybe they have a larger brain capacity, but I believe for myself the gap between being a twelve year old and fourteen year old is far greater than what at an earlier age.


Now let’s get to the point, when I was twelve I played on a a small number of servers, and being staff was such a immense obsession, the composition of a few letters to form the word Moderator or Admin in my younger brain was deemed incredible, truthfully, I did suck up to them, and I couldn’t help it, I felt I necessary to do it. But now at the age of fourteen I find it much healthier to simply play the server they offer and consciously make an effort to help one another, not because it said on the staff guidelines it’s a good idea to help, but you genuinely want to help. In my opinion, It’s very clear when someone is helping because they want to, and helping because they just are.


From that note, the rest of the blog will be based on myself in some cases, and people I’ve met through mine-craft and my own server. Okay, individually I’ve noticed that people desperate for a staff position for reasons I do not know myself, but I’m certain my twelve year old self could tell me, will just quit a server when they know they can’t be staff, or play less, and ultimately that is a very effective test, if you play less because you denied, the likelihood is you’re not fit for moderator, since it shows all you wanted was a staff position, and not to play on the server, therefore, if you got staff you would happily take that opportunity and moderate due to your conscious efforts to simply help another, and not due to desperation to become a staff member.


Amongst this, another I’ve also noticed that people tend to be overly formal, or more like the CEO of Netflix somewhat, formality is present usually what I train my staff to utilise, for professionalism, when it comes to situations wherein consequences are handed out, but otherwise, being taught professionalism when due, being themselves is also strictly enforced, when I “hire” a moderator to staff my server, I don’t intend for them to be reprogrammed, I want them to stay themselves, because them being themselves was the reason I hired them in the first place essentially. Also I feel staff need to be relatable to the players, and not come across as daunting, and simply are just another human being, just another valued community member, but instead with the small extra granted permission to ban, or mute, but nothing that ruins their experience to another non-staff member.


Typically I hire members of the community whom are pretty informal and occasionally enforce the rules system to other new players, or other members of the community, but only if they do so in a manner wherein it’s not like they’re staff; it comes across as desperate, and simply are just nudging the rules over to another player, such as if someone was spamming, another player might go: ‘spam’ that is helping, whereas a moderator would inform “Please don’t spam, 10 minute mute.” But I wouldn’t want community members to speak like a moderator; I usually am drawn to hiring someone who just informally encourages rules from time to time.


Also, reporting everything to staff, usually annoys me, like they would record every bad event, just comes across desperate, which is a shame on my part, because it shows they’re doing their best to aid the server through reporting mischievous and rule-breaking behaviour such as swearing and spam, but more often than not, it does come across as desperate.


Now I feel terrible writing this, because anything I said comes across as desperate I once did myself, but seeing it now, from a different perspective, as a server owner, of gaining some level of maturity, I do realise why when I was twelve people disliked me, and people didn’t want me to become staff, due to that level of desperation.


Thank you so much if you got to the very bottom here, I’m almost certain there are many blogs like this, but different perspectives can form a great picture for someone to view. Please do comment, or even come on my server for a small chat, I'm happy to. =)