[chelllman]

We publicly allow people to mindlessly post positive approval for each other but, we censor mindless disapproval. 

Mindless disapproval is allowed in staff app threads, which is further reason it should probably have followed the usual procedure so stuff like this would have gotten out of the way beforehand

Just popping in to say that with staff apps, the way that staff apps are moderated has been traditionally sorta/kinda in line with how the admins for that specific server allow the apps to be moderated.  For example, PH apps tend to be moderated more strictly than TTT, but that's just the difference between the two communities.  The web staff still step in on these apps if they get out of hand.

As for what you said about web apps, in the past they were direct promotions from the web admin because the web moderators had access to a lot of backend stuff.  AKA: lots more power than tmod/mod for one of the server.  Since all that's been changed, it might be worth discussing if web mod apps could be made open.  Ultimately, it's up to Gabe and I'm fine with the current system.