This line will not be blurred or forgotten. We are very strict about bias when voting, and currently a lot of applications have a lot of admins abstaining to ensure there isn’t bias.Abraxas wrote: ↑Sun Oct 03, 2021 9:18 pmnot to nitpick but while it is considered a volunteer job, it is service work. you deal with problems that wouldn’t come up during a volunteer job, such as having to deal with trolling or other serious rule breaking (not saying that happens often). i just think having partners or family members on the same team could cause some infighting (because of said close relationships) and/or be seen as nepotism.
i know the team doesn’t vote on things that include their friends or a partner but i personally feel like over time that line could be blurred and/or forgotten
Personally for me (sorry for giving my own post in response to you, I don’t want to double post!) I think it should be all or nothing. If we don’t allow partners and siblings, then we shouldn’t allow friends either, since the same complications can arise. Wolfhome today is different from Wolfhome before, and I think we have to have a little more faith in the people in our community to do good, instead of instantly assuming that negatives will spring up because of these circumstances. We should judge by their current performance and how they act, instead of just a surface level “oh they’re partners, things are bound to go wrong”.
Also Gringo is 100% correct. We are not going to let anyone do awful things to community members or other admins and turn a blind eye. Administrators are held to a higher standard for a reason, and that won’t disappear because a policy had changed.