B-Dubs, post: 135650283, member: 143 wrote:
It's less that and more we do need some extra coverage in certain areas and it is kinda hard to recruit sometimes given how a lot of the userbase tends to treat staff members. I'll go and talk to half a dozen to a dozen people and get maybe 1 or 2 maybes and most of the no's I get are a result of people not wanting to get attacked by the community in some way (among other issues, like availability).
It's not a recent thing either, it's generally always been this way.
One thing I can tell you is this: what usually happens is when a mod from a specific community joins up is they're either summarily kicked out of said community or allowed to remain until they disagree with the bulk of the community and are then kicked out. It happened to me when I was a just a mod back in like 2018/2019 and there are a lot of other staff members who have similar stories. There used to be members we had to warn new mods about because they had a history of taking a run at anyone new from their communities. We've had groups of members with vendettas against certain mods that caused us no end of trouble. I have got some incredibly wild stories and most of you don't even know the half of it. Keep in mind, none of this is a new development either. A lot of it goes back to literally the birth of the forum. If anything, it's a little better these days, but people have long memories and tend to not want to deal with the nonsense.
FUNKNOWN iXi, post: 135647913, member: 2588 wrote:
Also curious if people who have been banned before are up for consideration. I think their perspective would be valuable.
And no I'm not asking for myself lol.
It depends on what they were banned for and how many times they were banned. If you have any bigotry bans, you're probably out of the running unless you were that one guy who sent in literally the best ticket any of us had ever seen in our lives. Beyond that, we're obviously not going to accept any huge console warriors or people with over 15 warnings/bans. It would just feel silly to make a member who was constantly breaking the most basic rules a moderator, you know?
As a note, we do have people on staff who have been banned before.