[David]

but do ban request matter? if he can keep the server from falling into the abyss i feel like thats good enough. like being on call, being there, not just making a ban request to a group of trolls and most of the time he askes for help so they would make the ban request more likely than evan would.

Showing that you are able to collect evidence and do it consistently is important; I understand where you're coming from Milly, but I disagree with your argument that "keeping the server from falling into the abyss is enough." 

Perhaps I might be too harsh on Evan with my criticisms, but these are things to look out for regardless of what rank he is as staff. These are things that present problems; to quote Foxka/Paimon:  "Staff is not a hierarchy, they are all equal." *

*-10-13-2020, 08:28 AM, Let's Talk: Dealing with Conflict Professionally  Thread: here


So if you use this logic here, it's fair for me to treat his application just as harshly as I'd treat a moderator application. 


Of course, the actual logic is that they're not equal, as other individuals on this thread have made that abundantly clear with making statements like "It's just Test Mod" "Test mod is a BUFFER STATE" 

So you can make plenty of counterarguments against the logic of "Staff is not a hierarchy, they are all equal." However, that was the logic I went with on this application. 




TL/DR: I'm treating Evan's promotion as a case of "all staff are equal in the community" rather than "whether or not the rank he's going for is a Buffer State."