[TheUltraFish]

I understand where you are coming from when you approach this idea. I can already see Russ, Matt and others ready to complain about the powers that donors have already as if I can do something about it. The issue with most of the donors is that you speak of that abuse or do something wrong generally by donor to abuse it when they can.

The training is not a bad idea but the majority of abuse comes from toxicity or lack of common sense. It is common sense not to ungag someone that staff gag. It is especially common sense not to kick random players or even kick staff since Dink has never fixed who individuals can target with their powers. People who do genuine mistakes are easily understandable and learn how to react to issues by watching other staff and make sure to not use their powers when staff are on.

I know just like me, when you received your rank, and had to learn via trial by fire many times. That is why the staff training rank has been made. I believe this has overall worked from looking at the new wave of staff that have come since the staff trainer role has been created. Through a selective process of becoming staff as well as training from the staff trainers and other staff, very little to any accident or abuses have occurred. There has not been very few, if any, staff abuse reports that have been legitimate over the last year or so.

Getting donors, unselected randoms from the internet to cooperate for "training" sessions on a server they did not buy donor for is going to be more difficult than you can imagine. Some bought the rank to just support the server, they are under no obligation to EVER use their powers nor listen to any training they would receive. In a perfect world, this idea would work well. However, since anyone at anytime can purchase the donor rank, it would be difficult to tell who did or who did not receive adequate training. Also, donors are not staff and there will always be a small percentage that abuse. No matter how much training or teachings there are will stop that. We react to the donors that we have at the times of abuse. We give them the donor guidelines and we make it clear they are not to abuse. Then we go from there.