The staff system

[Mist]

Hand-choosing staff allows staff to see both sides of the quarter on a candidate, maybe when no one is around he breaks tons of rules but nobody is aware of this until the staff look into that.

Like Barkles said, it allows for staff to see who people actually are (or how they actually act) rather than what they portray themselves as on an application thread.

Another issue is the amount of applications we'll get would be insane, and rather uncanny, everyone would apply, which is not saying they shouldn't
just saying it'd be pretty hard to go through them all.

I can understand your point though, Mist.

I'm not just speaking of breaking rules, because there's a lot of other stuff that could be taken care of, than just rule-breakers. For example yesterday I needed help with a lot, because there was so much new stuff. Funny enough nobody really wanted to help me, when I asked questions or asked for help  ..

This is why I'm saying that only people with maybe 500, 600 hours or more, with maybe 1000 posts? Only those kind of people would be able to make an application. Or maybe the date they joined the community could have an influenze? This would reduce the amount of people who would make an application.