Fusion of Teacher and Moderator

[Pollux]

Giving powers such as banning or blacklisting to a rank that people can apply for is a bad idea imo

You can apply to contributor and they can have a damaging effect. Looking at some past 1's

If anything, it makes it easier to pick applicants out because the staff can see who would like to try a staff position out, to who they would've picked for mod/trial.

Contributor is very different and is a stupid thing to compare this to. We can't exactly go around the server picking people to be contrib now can we? Playing on the server doesn't show someone's ability to code at all. With any administrative role you easily can pick people from how they behave on the servers. The system works fine as it is now with staff hand-picking good candidates.

LOL?

If someone malicious wanted to, they could apply to contributor and fuck up shit, it's happened before.

If people could apply for staff, the odds of them getting it don't boost, it just makes it easier for the staff to see who would take on that position.

Smhhhh read what I put.

How are contributors relevant at all to people being able to apply for a administrative role? With Contributors there is no alternative to applications and we have multiple safeguards in place to prevent abuse and make it almost impossible to abuse the rank. These safeguards are not possible with an administrative role. With staff you have the option of either doing applications or handpicking people. With your own logic, it's better to handpick people due to the risk involved? There's a much higher chance of a staff member causing damage on the server than a contributor due to contributor being such a strictly controlled rank. I really don't get the point you're trying to make here, it makes no sense.