Opening staff applications

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Alright, this is something that has been bugging the hell out of me for a while now, and i'm finally gonna bring it up.

The Staff Apps.

Yes McBrawl, there was once a time where the staff apps were open to ALL players, not just mods+. However as all of us know, they were closed due to the fact that they were too flamey, which in my opinion is absolute bull when it comes to people who MAY become your future moderators. Why am I bringing this up now? One application, and for the most part, it has quite a few upvotes, and I have not seen any replies involving the fact that this guy did exactly what paparoach183 did, and took the WarZ idea for their own server. I'm not even gonna bring up the Skype and DDoSing that this guy has behind him, it doesn't belong here, but it's pretty evident.

Oh but what does this have to do with opening the app section?

A lot. Most moderators, i'm sorry, but most of them have no clue what goes on in the bad part of the WarZ community, probably the only one who I think does know a bit is @Mario , hats off to you, but that's ONE person. Pretty much NO ONE knew that Dark Clutch was the Co-Owner of a stresser, until he got banned, and by NO ONE I mean the entire damn community of Brawl (MPS at the time).

The staff replies are already so short, I mean there's like zero depth to it, there's nothing beyond the stats and while I agree that those stats should be judged, I feel like i'm reading off Jet Tilas introduction lines on Cutthroat kitchen. For example, if someone came to the forums, put a good amount of effort into an app, had some okay stats, but wasn't known by the FORUM community, but was an absolutely amazing person in the game, within the community on Skype, still, shot down, just absolutely shot down. Ya know why?

Because the only thing people can do, is press, a small little button, that if I remember correctly BARELY calculates into the overall promotion of the person. While I do understand that the staff does hold it in their hands if the person does become a moderator, the community should still be able to shoot down an app, but, guess what, there's no way to leave feedback, at all.

So, the solution to this...

Well I've made up three options.

1. Open the application section just like it used to be, everyone there, able to post, but for those people who are gonna say "NO 2 FLAMYYYY!!!222!", I have one word for you.
Signature...d. I'm sorry but isn't he... the forums mod? Isn't his most important duty, the forums? And while I understand it isn't his one responsibility, he should have quite a bit of power of the staff app section. And of course the mods should be able to work in there, that's evident, and for those of you who say "Oh nao da modz shuldnt haf 2 do et", again....
What's really more important than the staff app section?
Really, I wanna hear a valid argument on that question somewhere, considering how absolute trashy the WarZ community is, and how few mods there a for it, the fact that there's way too few mods in the whole grand scheme of things, it's the damned future of the server, the staff is what makes sure that the server isn't overun by douchey hackers.

2. Reopen it with certain restrictions. I'm pretty damn sure that XenForo allows for permissions to be added to people, if it's not automated then it can be done manually, and so the ability to post in the staff app section would be unlocked when...
The person has the following:
-150 Posts
-75 Likes
-Having been on the forum for at least 1 month

The like and the time limit stops post *****s, which I think that there's a lot of.

3. Reopen it to people who are trusted, and known, and mature on the forums. Pretty much, we all know who meets the three qualities I just listed, people like @Mokolee @Pegleg98 , etc. However, there would be something similar to an application, under staff applications, a sub forum titled "Forum Petitions". Basically, someone can petition for you to be allowed into the staff apps, with a poll, the name, and why exactly they should be allowed in, no format really, just a general explanation as to why this person should be granted said privilege.

Alright... my fingers are kind of out of breath at this point, so, let me end this.

Opening the staff apps allow for points to be made, information to be given, and to give the community more of a voice in the overall decision. There are a lot of servers that close staff apps, HP being one of them, and i'll bring up a point from there, a little story time: A scrandom by the name of Jeremy, made a staff app on HP, which I knew was gonna be shot down because it was a **** app, but, if it wasn't and he actually pieced one together, and it was good enough, and the staff apps were closed at the time, it would've sucked, because this kid hijacked some of my friends stuff, damaging him about 200$, proceeded to boot him, then me, and there's no way that would've ever been in that app thread if it was closed.

Anyways, thank you all for reading, please reply if you have comments, improvements, or anything that you would like to discuss about this thread, have a nice whatever position the suns in at the moment.

-Greedy

 

I put that in there to prevent people who just flatout post ***** and barely get any likes, it would show they're liked by the community, or atleast have earned some reputation among the members.