Less strict rules on ops commenting on applications

Neutral.
Premintex how do you propose we prevent the "HE BANNED ME FOR NO REASON” spam? In other words, how would you write the rules?

Vouch

i vouch. some ops may be seen as power-hungry or potentially abusive by ops, but admins don't catch it due to not being online. ops can be completely different people in-game when nobody's looking and in an application on the forums, so i think ops should be allowed to post their feelings about the player and if they'd feel comfortable having them as an administrator. they are our players after all, and the only reason we stay online. they should have a voice in who could punish them in the future.

 also - i don't understand what you mean as "he banned me for no reason" comments; wouldn't the only applications ops could see be super admin applications? and they would not be admin, so the applicant couldn't ban ops. if yourey suggesting AFTER the applicant has been accepted and added to admin and gotten to work, just lock the thread. I don't really see any problems with "he banned me" comments. we could also just issue warnings to violators of that rule.

I vouch. It's quite a rash generalization to assume that no OP is capable of giving constructive criticism. Drama was always going to be removed, I don't see why it's suddenly hard to do that when it's an OP's opinion.

Also, consider the difference between allowing them to post an opinion and allowing them to vote, because that's not what is being suggested.

Vouch. But they shouldn't be allowed to directly vouch or object like we do.

I think an OP's input is important since, as stated above, not all OPs are immature (why would we have future admins if this was true?) and some may have seen the applicant commit a violation behind admin backs. It's unfair to not give them a voice since they're the ones being affected the most by the applicant's acceptence.

I’m neutral, I don’t know where I quite stand on this concept. However, I do believe that admins should always have the final say in whether or not an OP gains admin privileges. At the most, an OP should be able to express their opinion on the applicant, and state why they believe or why they don’t believe he or she should become admin. I don’t think that OPs should be able to vote, however, like us admins. In the grand scheme of things, I don’t think that any OP is going to completely appreciate every administrator that is selected, but I feel that if we start denying players admin status because some of the OPs don’t agree with it, we may never see another admin join the team.

I don’t think it would be fair for an OP to judge whether or not a player would be good as an admin before they even earn status. I think this is where the vote-off policy comes into play later, and I also think admin abuse reports would be useful in these cases.

However, I do agree with some of these points, as OPs should definitely be able to at least express their viewpoints. However, it is so well known that many people dislike other people in positions of power, which is why I believe we just can’t let the OPs be the deciding factor.

Just my two cents.