Oh, I know why: because we don't want little kids who are going to act like immature brats on the server, that's why. If a person is mature enough to fill out everything honestly and to the best of their knowledge, then they will get accepted. However, if you're going to complain about having to write out an application that takes less than five minutes versus paying $5, which you may or may not have, then that shows us that you're too immature. It's not about if you like to fill it out. Who cares if you don't want to fill it out? And better yet, do you understand how many things you won't want to do in the course of your lifetime? Let me list a few:
- Paying utility bills
- Paying taxes
- Paying car insurance bills
- Paying car repair bills
- Paying car payments
- Writing long reports about meaningless crap
- Spending hundreds of dollars on a textbook you'll never use, but you're required to buy anyways
I could keep going on, but that would be a waste.
Every single part of the application pertains to your experience on Minetown. Your age has a slight chance of telling us how mature you are. How much you play and your experience in MC will determine how you will initially interact with the server and its community. Telling us about yourself, why you would like to join Minetown, and how active you will be on the website gives yourself a chance to evaluate why exactly you are joining this server in the first place, and if you want to follow through with your decision. How you heard about us is for analysis of where we should look for more players if needed. Now here's the important one:
Minetown Application Form wrote:
Have you read the rules and clearly understand them?
If you were to break ANY rule, we can hold you against this. This statement, along with the last one where you "certify that the information you provided above is exact and valid" is binding. Now why would we ask you if you know any programming languages? Well, we are always looking for developers to improve the server, so that's the point of that questtion. And of course the optional section is for any other remarks.
Hope that explains the application enough to understand why it's important. Trust me, it's more of a pain to manually process the 100+ apps we get per day, so just quit whining and properly fill out the app if you want to join the server. Oh and I'm locking the thread, since the question has been answered.
-MastaC