Members posting in applications... (this needs addressing)

[LordDecapo]

It is often considered generous when a member does the work of a Staff member. You put nearly no effort into the application? A member can say "You first need to put more effort into the application as this is barely an application." No pictures or videos? A member can respond saying that you need at least pictures/videos in order to be considered.

This saves the Staff some time.

What I do NOT find acceptable, despite the numerous excuses, are the dozens of school applications just waiting for a response. I hear "School server got borked when a Staff tried adding more plots and now they are full and cannot add more (easily)" way too often. While this seems like a perfectly valid, yet temporary, excuse, it is no reason to leave dozens of applications untouched. Two solutions:

• Fix the school server as soon as possible (yes no video games until then) then reply to every school application as to not leave then hanging without a response.
  
• Stop complaining about the community posting in the applications. If they were properly managed, users would not find the need to post. Then fix the school server and reply to every untouched application.
  

We are essentially doing the Staff's job of recognizing applications and before you get onto the community for posting in the applications sub-forum, you should reply to every other unanswered application.

Essentially: To get the members to stop posting, reply to the applications yourself. I see school apps over a month old and it is completely unacceptable.

Don't get onto us for doing what you were supposed to do.

#GuiltyOfThis
I do a lot of moderation on the server and take care of bot filtering and nonow the elections,
I was the last person to go through and do a mass application review, that was a couple weeks ago.
I don't have time to do ALL THEORY STAFF SHIT ALONE (last couple months it seems)..... just saying, I havent noticed like anyone else being adminly, except nuup banning a couple people, and tyler/mort/red etc. Getting involved with major issues when it's above my head, but even I have taken care of nearly all crashes for both servers in last few months..
which is why I am tallying votes this morning, the main culprits of this are in the running and HOPEFULLY they will win so that can lessen the staff load and more evenly spread it out.


So I know them posting on applications is bad, but I have started to take a couple people's words on it given my trust level of them and my time restraints.