Staff complaints are very different than complaints against normal players. To say that because complaints against normal players are public, staff complaints should be public too is a pretty stupid thing to say. A player isn't a person in position of authority who's expected to be well-respected by users and properly enforce the rules.

Now, staff on the other hand, they're quite different. They're expected to properly enforce the rules and have players listen to them and obey them - Public complaints just serve the purpose of tarnishing their reputation. Players will stop listening to staff if they get complaints on them, even if it's petty. All this can do is cause disorder on the server with players refusing to listen to staff who "should've been demoted".

The consequences of publicizing staff complaints are even worse when you realize the fact that staff have power - When staff publicly see users filing complaints on them, they'll start targeting users - Giving them less warnings and being more ban/kick-happy with these users. This alone will lead to even more issues and disorder than the initial case of staff abuse, as players will complain about "Staff abuse" in global", often leading to things like flame wars.

To add onto all of this, we'll just see a massive amount of irrelevant posts and drama in them. When you have staff complaints public, you're opening the doors to irrelevant posts on them - And these aren't just any normal complaints; These are ones against people who have a position of authority. Trolls will quickly realize this is an opportunity and jump right at it making troll posts on them. This will exacerbate our already bad irrelevant posts problem, and cause drama in the complaints themselves. When you see the large amount of players posting on complaints already, you can't help but imagine how worse the situation could get if staff complaints were public. This will only exacerbate the issue at hand.

Finally, my biggest problem with publicizing staff complaints: It causes unnecessary drama. When publicizing staff complaints, players will begin discussions about them in global, leading to drama and flame wars - Not just that, but users will start harassing staff members about the complaints on them and then say even more negative things about staff members, leading to even more drama and people not obeying staff authority/taking staff seriously. This will just add more issues to chat and cause even more problems. And quite frankly, what effect do you think these issues and drama will have in newer players? They'll leave. And so will many experienced players who are quite frankly tired of the unnecessary drama caused by public staff complaints. This will just make the server unwelcoming both to newer and experienced players, further decreasing the player count - Which isn't beneficial to the server nor something we should be aiming for.

Staff complaints are private for a reason for a reason, and should remain so for the sake of the staff team and the community as a whole.

 

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