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(06-15-2020, 10:00 PM)Hubjump Wrote: Staff decisions for what? If it's to do with balance and story, talking to mods who don't specialise in those areas could be harmful to many things in game. If the community can't be trusted as a whole to vote on things that you'd make a special senate for then maybe it'd be better to have a new role for that kind of input. We already know certain people are inquired about their regions of space they specialise rp in.
On top of basic forum moderation, mods get to (among other things) provide input on violation reports (most of which don't involve the forum), player requests, faction requests, SRPs, POB upgrade requests, can approve new user creation on the forums, and (IIRC) can approve username changes on the forums. I'm not proposing a new thing that new mods would be involved in, I'm describing long-standing practice.
The staff do not just sit on our hands all day and wait for the next request to come along, we have a backlog of forum requests that hovers around something like 60-100 at any given time (a non-trivial percent of this is dev requests which mods don't usually get involved in to be fair). We need people to be involved in processing these.