Funny enough, I got mod purely for PvP reasons.
I was Helper back when the PvP Manager was created, and through bothering Rofle excessively about balance changes he gave me access to do it myself.
Fast forward a year or two, when we merged with the r/Terraria server, we moved partially over to the Discord, and when the owner of that server was asking who all should be given mod, I was given Mod as I had ban and kick perms.
I was given said perms because of an old infamous hacker that was around constantly. As I had nothing better to do I had asked ifI could have said perms ONLY to handle this singular person.
Rofle has never commented on it, and I don’t have the Moderator title on the DTP, but here I am with the same rough permissions and powers of a Moderator, almost all of which was purely because I was an active PvPer.
ANYWAYS, regarding moderator on DG, I think if you have to overthink it this hard, you’re better off waiting.
It’s not a big deal, it’s volunteer work. There’s no status quo, no payment, you’re just offloaded a bunch of expectations for behavior and that’s that.
If you’re around all the time finding you’re making reports wishing there were more active staff because you keep running into hackers and people ruining your experience, apply for mod to try and help with that.
If you find you just want staff because it’s a position to look up to or anything even remotely similar to that, or you’re second-guessing because it feels important and like a big deal, I’d advise you put your efforts towards something more important personally.
They say it takes over 10,000 hours to master something. There are 8,760 hours in a year. If you take out 7 hours per day for sleep alone, that leaves you with 6,205 hours.
Another hour for basic human hygiene, another for food, another for exercise and you can quickly see why this number matters.
It will take you almost 2 full years of doing nothing but the ONE skill CONSTANTLY in order to master it, if you live off of this rule of thumb.
In that regard, your time on this planet is limited, so it’s worth using it in ways that you think are going to make the biggest impact on both yourself and those around you.
The only reason I’m still staff to this day is because Terraria PvP is one of the most unique things I’ve experienced in almost any video game, and I wish it had more exposure, so I try to keep it afloat a little bit.
I’ve proven over the years to the staff that I’m relatively trustworthy with staff permissions, so I’ve been given them almost more as a byproduct in-case of emergencies than anything else.
The title itself is very meaningless to me, I try to be modestly respectful and honest in the first place, and that’s USUALLY enough to work for staff, albeit I’ve had some conflict with my awkward approach to information theory.
Last note, this is all rhetorical, so don’t bother quoting and responding to the individual parts of this message kthx
