Experience comes with age. You'll always think that you're as experienced, or as matured as somebody that's older than you.
If you think you're something special and I can't convince you with a fact, then here's my opinion: It's safer, as a business, to limit the ages of people applying for moderation. People who play normally and have no intention of working voluntarily for the server look up to these moderators, as they are figures for the server. Obviously, businesses do not want to have any staff representing the business in a bad way, so they add application requirements, one of them being age. As a business, they want themselves to succeed, and of course bring in income for their work. They do not take unnecessary risks. They don't want to let someone who's underage work for them. Even if they might be alright for the job, there's no point to be taking the risk. There used to be a very young moderator on here, and he wrote a, I assume, good application to get the job. He was one of the most toxic/uneducated moderators I think MCSG has ever had, and he definitely left a mark on a lot of people in the community about how MCSG runs their business. If you heard a 10 year old repeating a movie line six times in a serious discussion within the business at a tax agency, how would you feel about their business? A bit unprofessional, right?
And I'm not saying you'd make a bad mark on the business. I'm just saying, is it worth to take the chance, in the administration's eyes, to have young moderator that could potentially leave a bad mark on the server? It's just better this way.
Also, younger people more often are:
- Offended easily. If a critical thread is posted, a young moderator may think that it violates the terms, even though it may just be a critical thread/post, and delete it, causing some anger between the community and staff.
- Pressured. Honestly, it would be hard for anyone to have to completely disregard their personal relationships while doing their job, and not everyone can. That being said, younger people are more prone to becoming pressured by close relationships and not doing their job correctly.
- Susceptible to their feelings coming into their job. Younger people are much more likely to make a false ban if they think evidence is a bit suspicious on a player who they strongly dislike, and more likely to look away from suspicious evidence on a player who they like.
This is horrible, honestly. I don't want anybody's philosophy to be that, it's what pedophiles think about to rationalize why they're going to a 12 year old's house. I think a lot of younger people with the determination to become a moderator at a young age may say this, however ask that same person when he is 10~ years older what he thinks of the phrase, and have his opinion be completely different.
Think of it this way. You're a capable adult. You own a very successful business that many people would look up to. You have way too many job applications than you can handle, and you need some ways to limit it. There's no reason to open up a whole other flood gate for more applications where you'd be taking risks accepting it.
