The staff team

[Aryen]

Let me try to explain why applications wont work.

First of all, its not about simply banning minges, surely if staff job was just banning massive propkillers, 90% of community could become staff. It also involves working with people, dealing with somewhat stressful situations. Its involves talking to people, investigating(sort of), and being as unbiased as possible.

Now lets imagine apps do get added. Everyone will start posting applications, and what happens next? How do you know who is capable/trustworthy etc etc? Short answer - You cant. Why? Simply because as soon as player post application they become "exceptional player" good behaviour etc. They know they are being watched, they know that if they want to become staff they need to behave well. You are delusional if you dont understand it.

Players behave completly different in natural environment, this allows staff to pick people judging by their actions not words like "Hi I love FL and RP I be good I promise"

Surely you can say but people still asslick without applications. They do, but during my time on FL I met only 3 or 4 people who became admin via blatant asslicking. Guess what 2 of them didnt even pass trial/mod stage. Trust me, asslicking is VERY obvious, especially if its massive.

But there are already biased admins! - Maybe you are right, but still its not as massive as it would be if applications existed.

One last time, Applications simply will not work. People will change behaviour. You dont know if you can trust said people. You dont know if those people are biased or not. Staff job is not only about typing out "!ban %username% 5days propkilling" if it was only that, it would be completly different story
Thanks.

I definitely agree. People will change behaviour for a short amount of time just to get the rank. But it won't happen only cause of applications. Of course, the number of people who would change would increase if apps were opened but there's still quite a few people who might have a chance of getting TAdmin and still asslick or behave good so the admins notice them. Some people might say that applications are not good for the long run, and that's partly true, in some communities there's people who join just to become staff one day and once they're bored, they leave for a long time. Fearless is not like that, it's a community which has kept together different people for many years who still play even though they might have taken breaks or left at some point. I'm pretty sure there are some active players who want to become staff and would be great at it, and wouldn't stop being active once they got their rank and resign when bored. If the staff doesn't even have time to come on and do some sits/punish rule breakers how will they even have time to monitor potential new staff members? Applications make it much easier for the team to find the right ones. We also have an idea of what everyone's like, and if they apply and change their behaviour it would be pretty obvious. So I'd say opening applications for a while would be a good idea and only adding like 3 new staff members to see its results, it would help the server massively.