soggypickle
District 13
- Joined
- Jun 22, 2012
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I believe that all applicants should be thoroughly scanned for activity on the network, and some express that activity through means other than the forums. I just want to clarify that if someone joins the network, they are not going to be accepted for staff within the same month. People get denied for being too new to the community all the time. People with less than 50 posts getting Mod isn't a setback. A lot of those people simply dedicate their time to other platforms, such as in-game or on TeamSpeak. They should be seen the same as any other Mod.
Must I remind you that Mods who are inactive do get removed from the staff team? If people are inactive on the forums, but still have Mod, that right there should be enough proof to back up my claims, which is that they are demonstrating great activity on other portions of the network.
Have we ever had any setbacks on the forums because of this? Not that I've seen. We get hundreds of Report Abuses a week, and yet the Report Abuse section is almost always empty when I check it. The speed at which they get dealt with is amazing, and definitely should be the least of anybody's worries.
I don't see the forums suffer at all. Threads that need to be locked, get locked. Report Abuses get responded to. Flame gets deleted. So, what's wrong with some Mods having less than 50 posts? We shouldn't judge them or their capabilities as a staff member with nothing but a number.
Must I remind you that Mods who are inactive do get removed from the staff team? If people are inactive on the forums, but still have Mod, that right there should be enough proof to back up my claims, which is that they are demonstrating great activity on other portions of the network.
Have we ever had any setbacks on the forums because of this? Not that I've seen. We get hundreds of Report Abuses a week, and yet the Report Abuse section is almost always empty when I check it. The speed at which they get dealt with is amazing, and definitely should be the least of anybody's worries.
People get permanently banned if they are causing drama that we don't wish to deal with. It's not "sugarcoating", it's simply keeping it on the down-low so people stop getting worked up. Mods often use macros to respond to people so they don't have to type out a message that will almost always be the same answer to the question, and shouldn't be associated with laziness. Simply put, if we really didn't care about what the players needed, we wouldn't respond to them at all.
I don't see the forums suffer at all. Threads that need to be locked, get locked. Report Abuses get responded to. Flame gets deleted. So, what's wrong with some Mods having less than 50 posts? We shouldn't judge them or their capabilities as a staff member with nothing but a number.
