TL;DR

APPLICATIONS

OK…this will definitely upset a few people, as well as call on a potential uprising – but there’s something exceedingly pleasant about them pitch forks, and I suppose that if ye gotta have an exit, angry mob is one way to make it memorable.

That said, we really… can’t take the app rhythm anymore. We usually get around eighty submissions per app week, which… let’s face it… is a lot. At the time of my writing, there have been 59 character reserves formally stated; in my experience, the very most we can assume is that ten of those will not result in applications. That still leaves us with 49.

…here’s another fact: most applications? Don’t come from reserves. They’re the end product of last moment whim and fancy. Which is OK – but that 49 will sadly double.

I’m sure no one cares about the math. But this is the background behind a decision we’re going to have to ask you to make.

We’ve considered our options at this point. Some of them have been more pleasant than others – some have required entirely too much thought. Ultimately, what we came down to are two proposals:


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There are three other very obvious alternatives that we’ve overlooked in that poll, and here was our reasoning to do it:

I. “Make the app process less of an ordeal so it’ll not take as much time.” As detailed in our last post, that is sadly not an option. Quality > quantity, always.
II. “Get another mod to help! Hell, I’ll do it!”

Before anyone mentions the “variety of advantages” that a mod has, allow me to list the minutiae:

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III. "If you’re not up for it, quit the job, let other people who can handle it do it, losers." This actually doesn’t fall under category II, because let’s face it, those who resign do not choose their successors; they can at most recommend them. If it comes down to this being what you all want, I’m personally up to taking leave from my mod hat, no further words necessary. But I somehow doubt this will solve the app problem for new mods to come.

If at this point you have any SUGGESTIONS, we would love to hear them. Not because we’re looking for reassurance, or an argument, and definitely not because we want to hear why this policy sucks and how much you feel like crying now. We’d like to hear what you have to say because, yes – we’d like to get the matter solved.

Thank you.