yea - but better than having no one caring about it at all. currently grey areas are not interpreted at all by the admins - or only on very rare occasions. - we had so many posts and concerns about power and accumulating power over non purchased systems and harrassment. and not a single admin stepped in to clear things up.
that led to people flaming each other, cause everyone felt to be right - especially right to smite the other side. - i d wish for guides to step into at least those emotionally charged discussions sometimes and clear things up.
i can accept that admins leave us alone with RP stuff - thats fine, but once it affects the peoples gameplay experience on a metalevel, i wish for interventions. - now since such things crop up quite often here - with so many rules, factions and members of the community, it would be too much work for a small team of admins, - so thats where a team of guides can step in. - it won t solve things 100% - but maybe better than it does it now.
hardly any concept system is perfect, but we can try to improve it where its possible. - when a guide is inactive, the work is not done, thats correct. - same when a guide does not maintain a tight communication with the global admin team. - communication is the most important thing there.... . all of that takes time, spare time - play time. those that do it must WANT to do it - cause they want to improve things. they must not feel like they must do it against their will or cause its "expected off them". admins must have fun administrating - if there is no fun, its work - and who wants to work in his sparetime.... .
so what you need are people that are usually up to date with whats going on - and at least on the forum often - but its equally important to be ingame. - a big problem with admins is sometimes that they find no time to spend ingame anymore - henceforth, they get estranged by whats "really" going on. - its not everyones job for sure... but i am sure there d be people who d take up the job and responsibility. - if they quit or become inactive, they should at least drop them a note so that the admins know they have more work to do then.
however, the work i focus on is not really done by the admins anyway. - its mostly moderating and a link to "official statements" which we often lack.