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I think unresigning and getting your staff rank back shouldn't be a thing. You should have to start from trusted again like everyone else does when they're going for staff. If you're gonna officially resign from a rank like admin or moderator it should be an easy sail anyway if you were well respected during your tenures (like dong/nicol when they unresigned around the same time, they should've had to start at trusted IMO)

My case was special in the sense that it wasn’t entirely my doing (just outright randomly posting an app to unresign). I was reached out to by an Admin and the Owner to come back. We decided it would be fair that I was Mod first before I got Admin back. I didn’t even know Nicol was coming back until he posted the same feedback forum as me. 

Back to the actual topic on hand, I think the idea is fair. I wouldn’t even attempt anything like that though now because most of these people weren’t around for either of my tenures. I think once enough time has gone by you should most definitely want to start from the bottom to get acclimated to the new environment.