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1. Even the person who created this thread didn’t receive backlash after receiving his position on the web staff team through the same process. 

2. Laced shouldn’t be punished for something that has never been this much of an issue before. 

1. This is an extremely flawed argument to make.  Battons did not receive backlash because he was not a controversial addition.  It is a false equivalency to equate the promotion of Laced to the promotion of Battons in the same way it a logical fallacy to say that an admin removing a map from rotation that no one plays anyways should have to same reaction as the same admin removing one of the most played maps.  There is no comparison to be made because they are two completely different instances; one without controversy and one with.  It seems like you are saying that people should be expected to have the same reaction to something they agree with and something they disagree with. It just makes no sense.

2. It is also not a punishment to be put through what most agree should be the standard process for staff.  I think this where your bias is showing.  You equate Laced's promotion being held to the same standard of every other promotion to a punishment, when in reality it just bringing it within the norm and not making it an exception.  With this argument you are saying that Laced deserves to above the normal process and that by bringing him down to level of everyone else that it is a punishment.