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Originally Posted by Lyndzey
This isn't the real world. This is an online gaming community where we already know the majority of players, not a country of 300 million people where we have to go off of resumes because we haven't been able to observe the person interacting with others.
I would say that becoming a PWA member is more of getting a promotion from a server staff job, as I believe all global staff members were at one point staff somewhere. This actually does parallel real jobs somewhat, as we are typically promoted based on our interactions with others, not because we sent in an application.
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i think you are trying to create a reason for PWA to hire people they like, rather than people who have applied
applications should be used as a way for the PWA to know which people want into the PWA, like in real jobs where you apply to make it known that you want the job. it shouldn't be said that applications are useless or unnecessary, because they aren't. further, once the application is done, only then can you really look at the person (interview) and then make a rational decision based upon the credentials and the impression
just deciding that someone is good enough because you "know them" or "have seen them at work" isn't as great as when someone applies, waits, shows themselves as competent, and then is hired. i could care less if xor is PWA or not - i don't know a single thing about him, nor a single thing about why he was hired, other than he worked on zodiac and was apparently helpful to players. i also know FAQs on UN that help players out - why don't you go and watch them? i mean honestly, how much time did the PWA stay on RC just watching for people's performances? you couldn't have been looking at his posts, as he didn't have any, and unless you were playing graal with him (which no one with critical-thinking skills does apparently) or talking with him through RC, which is to say that members of the PWA took time out of their work on graal specifically to get to know xor so they could potentially hire him...i don't see that being done to anyone else, nor have i heard about that being done to anyone else, which suggests that xor might be friends with members of the PWA, and friend's in high places means you have connections to resources that others don't enjoy. it's still clear that those who applied couldn't hold a candle to what xor had to offer - and he didn't even need to apply
why didn't you guys go talk and get to know clockwork on his server so you could potentially hire him too? at least he took the time to write an application