Hello, in regards to the comment about Johnson's admission to TMod being biased, I'd like to chime in.
It wasn't an NL decision; it was a decision I made as part of my effort to try to bump up overall staff levels on the UK. If you're not aware, we've been having problems with encouraging players to join the staff team, and one of those problems we noticed was that people either thought staff would be too much work on top of their RP positions, or they would have to focus on staff over more enjoyable in-game activities. Over the past month, I have made efforts to try and turn this around, encouraging SL to be more relaxed with staff members who have their requirements, and to not badger them to take sits unless necessary. The idea being, you're allowed to simply play the game and have fun- not burn yourself out doing tons of staff stuff beyond your requirements.
And of course, the third pillar to this was looking into long-time players who have never applied for staff, yet were very capable, and seeing just why they haven't.
Now, where does this tie into with Johnson? Simple, he was one of those players I reached out to, and his reasons for never applying were the following: he wanted to focus on CI and not have staff become his sole priority- I helped put these concerns to bed with my earlier efforts above; and his other concern was over the application itself.
Now, applications exist so SL can vet players who come into the staff team. It is a basic vetting, and the more in-depth stuff happens during the trial period. Now, this system works for someone we don't know much about, but for a player with a long-standing presence within the community? It is really just a tick box. So I waved it for Johnson, because what will an application tell me that I don't already know from three years of interactions?
The idea that Johnson received some unique exemption is false. In my search to try and encourage players into the staff team, I also offered other long time players that I trusted the same position, Pennington, being the current O5-1, was another player offered the fast-track into TMod as I trusted him, and him being very vocal regarding his thoughts on the server meant that I could rely on him to speak up and provide a strong viewpoint based on his valued experienced. He sadly rejected this offer, but the point stands.
Johnson is not unique in receiving the offer; he is unique in being the only one to have accepted it (thus far).
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