Quote Originally Posted by The Captain
For Staff, it gives you added power in that you can carry out the rules and not have to be questioned about carrying them out since they will be agreed upon. You won't have to go through a different system of decision for each case, but can use one single method to come to your decisions and carry on about your business.
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It'll never happen, sorry Cap'n. *rhyme* Believe it or not, as I said in an earlier post, the more rules you make the more likely people are to break them. Also, you can never create a set of rules that covers every scenario and you do have to treat scenarios differently than you usually do on many an occasion. No offence to you whatsoever, but you're definitely showing your inexperience with board-running. It's not about being robotic and going by a strict set of rules. It's about using your judgement and making rules that often don't even get told to the public. "Crack down on spam for now" "Encourage spam now" etc... we need to constantly change in order to adjust to how the nature of the boards. A set of rules would never work and it would never be used for every case. If we had to follow a set group of rules or something, I may consider stepping down myself as I am staff 95% for the discussions that take place in there and 5% for actual action-taking. I fully encourage less rules, not more.