And then we start hiring mods of less quality, then our staff team becomes worse. See my point? When I was 13, I thought I was mature, and I thought I could handle a staff position. Looking back, let's just say I was wrong.
lol. For me it's the total opposite. I was devoted to MCGamer back then, and knew the rules by heart, now I'm neither.
Anyway.
MCGamer has very high standards, so to say. To me, they're not high at all. MCGamer just looks for a pretty, well-written app, for eloquence and a polished attitude. Anyone can have this.
Who am I to say this anyway. Sounds biased since I never was a moderator.
You ask a lot for yourself, Nirmit. I want more moderators, more developers, a lower allowed age for applicants, you say. Do you think these people appear out of nowhere? There is always is a negative to a positive side, acknowledge that. If these players are illiterate, they won't get accepted, thus people age of 12 years old are not qualified at all.
MCGamer is pretty much asking for someone who has had basic education. School teaches the common core that is necessary for the essential professional skills and knowledge. If you are not illiterate, know how to properly write, speak and communicate yourself, then you're basically fit for this position. Moderating is just communicating with the players, understanding the servers standards they have under the players and punish those who go against these.
This covers why MCGamer doesn't accepts people lower than 13 years old. Because these players have yet not even finished basic education, Middle School.
As far as more moderators. Just by asking they won't come. Any player that has applied for moderator has done it to gain something in return. Whatever their ambitions may me, whether complex or not, everyone has wanted something off applying for moderator. In fact, if we still had friend rank, more people would apply: because they are obtaining something in ex-change. Now a days whenever you resign you just get nothing or donor —and anyone has access to donor, not special.
If MCGamer truly wanted more staff, they would give something in-exchange to these moderators. However, more to say, this is a Minecraft server. The income MCGamer gets from sponsors isn't that significant. It keeps the server alive, but it's barely enough; servers are expensive, and MCGamer has around 600 or so servers. All this being said means that, if MCGamer can't pay staff with money, then they should pay with something the server has that is important to other people —Friend rank or VIP.
Developers are the hardest. MCGamer just can't give the position to anyone. MCGamer can't take the risk to give the position and leave the developer on his free-will to next day see the servers are completely wiped. As I had stated, most players are around 12-15 years old. Most people don't know how to code, use java-script and such. Simply, you can't ask for things if they're not even available. People that know what they're doing don't apply daily for the developer position.