Official Notice - Development Team Strike

[Omi]

Way to be melodramatic, Garrett. Your scaremongering isn't helping matters - the server went for years without any of the current administrators on side, and I'm confident that would have the capacity to function without any of them in the future. Your suggestion would, from where I'm sitting, expect me to tolerate a staff that has repeatedly shown its lack of interest in working alongside the community - all for the simple reason that they have "experience". Forgive my ignorance, but I don't think acting as an administrator for this mod requires degree-level competency or training. The way you say it, you're outright stating that a staff with an insufficient wealth of experience would simply crumble without someone to show them the ropes. While I don't expect that a team of new people could simply walk in and pick everything up in a few hours, I do not think it would take an incredible amount of time to pull things back on track.

Ultimately, if I had to choose between returning faction leaders that were pulled away due to this decision in exchange for purging the entire list of greens, I'd take it in a heartbeat. That's not even what I'm asking for, though - it's a lot simpler than that. I don't expect the staff to resign in totality much as I'd love to see it happen, but I do want to see some reforms implemented that allows the staff to be in some manner held accountable for their actions, whether it be a formalised complaints and appeals system or something else. Don't tell me this isn't possible, either - I have seen other communities wherein complaints against staff members are taken seriously, made public, and voted on publically by the moderators, admins, and superadmins that govern the entire community. The old-fashioned idea that you either suck it up or leave should not cut it anymore, and any suggestion that overhauling that kind of system would lead to some sort of ultimate collapse is provably false. The only way your claim could make any sort of sense is if you truly believe Disco is so different to any other community of a similar size that a system like that would uniquely not work here, and I would find that a very outlandish claim to make.

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