Hai! I don't agree with the changes that were made to the Helper Applications and listen the reasoning for this below [:
First of all, why only close the applications for just 4 countries? I've talked to some (ex-)staff members and we came to the conclusion that the region or language spoken by a certain staff member/applicant isn't that relevant at all. Your problem isn't the lack of unhandled language reports or such, is it? There's a lot of great Dutch, Spanish and English people out there that definitely deserve the role more than some of the current staff member you have right now. Anyhow, before we start an entire discussion about who - according to me - doesn't deserve the role as much as some other members do, this is not really the problem. The problem is that Cube is, in certain aspects, overstaffed. I remember writing about the lack of staff members in one of the CubeCraft Problems threads I've written, but now the situation has turned around. In my opinion you've carried it a little too far by recruiting a tremendous amount of staff members, while the work that has to be done stays the same. In fact, a lot of (ex-) staff members didn't have anything to do because other staff members were too fast, which is very demotivating and most definitely doesn't help the 'team' overall.
I hope you'll take this into consideration and will close the helper applications altogether.
Thanks for reading [:
First of all, why only close the applications for just 4 countries? I've talked to some (ex-)staff members and we came to the conclusion that the region or language spoken by a certain staff member/applicant isn't that relevant at all. Your problem isn't the lack of unhandled language reports or such, is it? There's a lot of great Dutch, Spanish and English people out there that definitely deserve the role more than some of the current staff member you have right now. Anyhow, before we start an entire discussion about who - according to me - doesn't deserve the role as much as some other members do, this is not really the problem. The problem is that Cube is, in certain aspects, overstaffed. I remember writing about the lack of staff members in one of the CubeCraft Problems threads I've written, but now the situation has turned around. In my opinion you've carried it a little too far by recruiting a tremendous amount of staff members, while the work that has to be done stays the same. In fact, a lot of (ex-) staff members didn't have anything to do because other staff members were too fast, which is very demotivating and most definitely doesn't help the 'team' overall.
I hope you'll take this into consideration and will close the helper applications altogether.
Thanks for reading [: