Accepted advicebanana's Moderator Application

1) SteamRep ID block pasted from your SR profile.
| steamname: аdvicebanana
| steam3ID: [U:1:23045495]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:1:11522747
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197983311223
| customURL: http://steamcommunity.com/id/advicebanana
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561197983311223

2) Are you at least 18 years of age? Timezone and nation of residence?
Yes, I am 30, living in Germany and my timezone is UTC+1.

3) Please tell us about yourself (job, school, hobbies, etc)?
I am studying mathematics with a CS minor, currently working on my thesis. I spend my free time on my bicycle, gaming and learning more about online fraud.

4) Why do you want to become a SteamRep moderator?
I reduce Steamrep's backlog by posting reports over on FoG right now. Helping with this notorious problem does seem worthwhile.
I have noticed what I call "typical fancy scammer profiles" for the first time in the summer of 2014 and hope to focus on reports against this type of user as a moderator.

5) How much time can you devote to SteamRep per week?
I could do 15 hours.

6) Do you have any prior administrative experience, or similar (please elaborate)?
I have been moderator of /r/steamgameswap on reddit for about a year and of /r/steam for about 9 months.

7) What challenges do you foresee if you become a moderator?
This kind of fraud carries a lot of negativity with it. I've been a position where I can prevent or counter fraud. Only being able to pick up the pieces in reviewing reports might have a negative effect on me.

8) Can you accept the fact that you must enforce SteamRep rules and guidelines?
Yes.

9) Do you feel you will have any issues denying / accepting reports and appeals?
No. I could recuse myself in case of a conflict of interest.

10) Do you handle instruction and direction well?
I do.

11) What do you feel are your personal shortcomings or attributes you can improve on?
Lacking self-esteem and self-confidence, tendency to focus on details rather than the big picture. I nitpick stuff.

12) What contributions do you believe you will be able to make to SteamRep?
Speed up report queue, hopefully reach out to other communities pushing towards implementing education about fraud in communities that lack it. I tinker with MySQL and a some Python which might be helpful as well.
I speak English, native German, and also French and Japanese on a basic level.

13) Do you have any interest in eventually becoming an SR Admin? If so, what kinds of things would you like to do? (Example- community relations, appeals, scam reports, etc.)
Yes. Handing reports and appeals,

14) Please list all alternate Steam accounts using SteamRep ID blocks.
This is the only account I use to interact with other people. Storage accounts will be listed in private notes visible to moderators and admins:
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15) Do you agree to the Code of Conduct and agree to abide by it?
I agree.

16) Have you read the Duties of SR Moderators post and understand it?
Yes

17) (If applicable) List Steam trading communities you are / have been active on and in what capacity (user, mod, admin), also give a link to the account(s) there.
Steamgifts user: http://steamgifts.com/user/falsifiable
CSGOLounge user: http://csgolounge.com/profile?id=76561197983311223
/r/steamgameswap moderator/user: https://www.reddit.com/user/reireirei/
backpack.tf user: http://backpack.tf/profiles/76561197983311223
TF2Outpost user: http://www.tf2outpost.com/user/156317
Fortress of Gamers user: http://forums.f-o-g.eu/members/advicebanana.html

18) Do you have any questions?
No questions

Addition to 14)
My dispenser bot:
| steamname: Banana's Bot
| steam3ID: [U:1:125178772]
| steamID32: STEAM_0:0:62589386
| steamID64: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198085444500
| customURL:
| steamrep: http://steamrep.com/profiles/76561198085444500

Addition to 17)
dispenser.tf user: https://dispenser.tf/id/76561197983311223

I would like to vouch for this person.
Knows the ins and outs, dedicates his time to help the trading community, he has reported many many many x999 scammer on FoG, it's a very nice person to talk to and very mature.
I've seen several people applying for mod on SR and I would like to say this person is on top 5 of people that I believe have what it takes to be one.
I hope to see you on our team, helping the community. Gl with your app, I hope you make it!

Although it doesn't mean much, I too would like to vouch for Banana, the sheer amount of time he dedicates to the community is amazing.

He would do well as a SteamRep Moderator.

Thank you for applying to join the Steamrep staff!! Your application is now under review!

Advice is incredibly diligent and helpful. He is very active already in several aspects of the anti-fraud community, but I'd also like to point out that he's one of the leading sources for getting phishing links and scam URLs manually removed from Steam!

Voucherino.

Thanks you for your support!

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Congratulations! Your application has been accepted!!! Welcome to the staff!