(August 11, 2016 at 5:22 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: How do you guys deal with the fact that once you're a member of staff, you pretty much become immune to being criticised and punished for things normal users would get a shitstorm for?
Staff member may make mistakes, I made a few, but none is done on purpose, it usually involves some wipping from the other staff members. If a staff member makes a mistake he will be criticized for it.
Some time ago, acting as staff, I didn't thought something right and acted bluntly with it. My teammates called me to reason and I apologized publicly for my outburst. We are human.
It is way more frequent to have a member pull the "but you are abusing your staff power" routine, than error to come from a deliberate abuse of power. Staff members should be able to have passionate discussions about X without fear the normal members reaction to it.
I even recently faced Losty on a mafia subject, that I mistakenly thought would spill onto the general forum and she carefully explained that was simply a subforum change. Like any regular joe, I had to admit my error. That's civil service. Had she been a regular joe, I'd be getting a kitrenkorn up my ass. So yeah I criticized a staff member. There is no rule about that. There is even a subforum for that.