New PR Staff

[MontyPython]

There's a fundamental difference between PR and all the other jobs on the server.

Player Relations is entirely about dealing with other people (no ****?), enforcing rules, and problem solving. Your day-to-day activities on Era are vitally important (much moreso than your token application). If you're an ET member and you're a jackass when you're off-tag or throwing out racial slurs, okay. That doesn't make it right, but your off-tag behaviour doesn't directly affect your ability to host events in any way. Likewise, if you're a developer, your off-tag behaviour isn't extremely important (we're not talking about major rule-breaking or abuse, just little things), because you're not hired because of your charisma or your impressively low ban/jail history. You're hired because you can (in theory) script/graphic/whateverthe**** well.

That being said, your personality and behaviour in the game as a PR is absolutely important. You're not hired to bring "work" talent. Your "work" talent is your personality/behaviour. You're there to sort out player's problems. Answer gameplay questions. Bring swift justice upon miscreants. So if you're off spouting racial slurs and being a general jackass when you're offtag, but then you get on-tag and jail someone for that exact same behaviour, that's not doing a good job. That makes you a terrible PR and an insufferable hypocrite.

The application itself, as far as I'm concerned, gives little-to-no evidence as to what kind of PR you'd actually make. It's just a hoop to jump through. It does prove you're at least half-way serious about the job, because you're taking the time to (hopefully) fill out the application to the best of your ability. But here's the problem: unless you're exceptionally stupid/honest, everyone knows what a "right" answer is on a PR application.
A classic question example would be a question that asks: "If your friend breaks the rules, what do you do?"
Hmmm, I wonder what an unbiased, upstanding PR would do...

In reality, your real application is your reputation (think kind/unkind; follows rules/doesn't follow rules; - I'm not talking about your "oldbie" bull**** status or your current e-peen size), your actions, and your jail/ban history. You can give all the right answers and promise to be the incarnation of Mother Teresa, but if you're known as a jackass and have a ban history that requires a mouse wheel to fully navigate through, I think I'll take my chances with someone else.