Rule Suggestion CL4 Promotion application requirement equivalency.

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JasonTheCheesyGuy

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Feb 11, 2025
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What does this suggestions change/add/remove:

This suggestion proposes that the following roles no longer require an application to be submitted, but may rather be promoted into by the relevant department heads.

- Internal Security Department Inspector
- Security Captain
- RSD Executive Researcher
- Medical Consultant
- External Affairs Special Agent
- Ethics Committee Assistant (Considered; But perhaps not wise.)
- Overseer Council Assistant (Considered; But perhaps not wise.)

This is to make the attainment of these ranks equal to the other CL4 positions. As it stands, the bar for gaining one of the above roles is much harder due to the added effort of writing an application and public scrutiny upon the promotion. As it stands, the following roles can already be promoted into without requiring a public application to be written;

- M.T.F. E11 Lt.
- M.T.F. Nu-7 Lt.
- M.T.F. A-1/O-1 Lt.
- GOC Lt.
- Chaos Insurgency DELCOM

Has something similar been suggested before? If so, why is your suggestion different?
The only threads regarding applications that I could locate had to do with Site-Command, or Site-Admin, and neither touched on the topic of the above roles.

Possible Positives of the suggestion:
- A significant increase in the amount of players that may attain and play these roles, solving the issue of their lacking presence upon site.
- More equivalency for roles that hold less OOC/In-RP authority, yet require more effort to be attained.

Possible Negatives of the suggestion:
- The lowering of public scrutiny for these roles may result in less quality control for those that play the roles.
- More rapid overturn of JCL4 positions.

Based on the Positives & Negatives, why should this suggestion be accepted:

This change will provide even playing ground between various CL4 positions, without causing issues that are not already present for M.T.F./GOC/CI. It just events out the playing field more. Why should an RSD Executive be required to write a full application and be subjected to public scrutiny for a role that has no meaningful IC authority beyond tests, and no OOC authority beyond the occasional job-ban, while at the same time other CL4 positions for regiments can be attained without any public scrutiny while holding more OOC authority over others' progression within their departments, and more IC capacity for wrongdoing?
 
Negative Support
In the long run this will just make it so it's harder to judge a person fairly and without bias.
As it is now works perfectly fine.
If this change were to happen it would become harder on departmental leads to constantly overlook a singular person to make sure they're doing alright. Now of course it doesn't sound bad on paper, but in practice I don't believe it will work and instead cause more issue then what it is intended to fix.
Applications are there to allow people to get a good judge of a person if they haven't met them properly beforehand, removing this step makes it so insane bias can and will happen (I won't say that bias doesn't play a part in apps nowadays, but I believe that it'll be even more after the removal of them).