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That's a poor excuse when, as me and Thallen have both said in the response you quoted and my response right after, that there have been plenty of people much more qualified than most of the GPs now who have applied/offered to help. The team seems to be relatively capable of screening people before they hire them, otherwise there would never be any new staff/GPs, but they seem to be screening on objectively wrong criteria.
Also, like Thallen said, some of these people have been willing to go without any sort of recognition of administrative benefits/powers whatsoever other than what's required to get rid of hackers that continue to crop up and cause problems for hours on end, despite the possibility of hacking being a known issue to admins and a known flaw in the game engine (for the past 19 years since the game was first released on PC). See the problem here? You have people willing to do the GPs job for them, since most of them can't/won't, without being given any power, but there's some sort of obscure, seemingly bad screening process in the way of that.
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It's not just about being qualified. As stated before, account history, behavior/image in the community and behavior on the forums have to be accounted for.
Even if they hired people to deal specifically with hackers, the problem won't go away. As you said yourself the problem of hacking has been a constant issue since the conception of Graal itself, so it can't be completely stopped. And as for the flaw in the game engine (which may or may not exist), a GP would have no way to gain access to that so really their best bet is just IP banning known hackers since that is the best anyone can really do.
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Yes, and my point is that if we're going through this rigorous process and still hiring GPs that either go full-corrupt mode (rare cases) or do a poor job and/or get fired, how is that any better than "taking a chance" hiring someone who can clearly do a better job but doesn't fit whatever the set requirements are? The main requirement should be that you're capable of doing a good job…
You make it seem as if it's some massive risk to hire a GP, like you can't monitor them and ensure that they're doing their job correctly or undo the things they've done in some small period of time. Soren was allowed to go 2 weeks sharing his account with a player and abusing his powers before finally someone paid attention to me complaining about it on the forums and had him fired.
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It's difficult to determine whether or not someone can "clearly do a better job" just based off of what they say on an application. The people who handle the application process have no way of truly determining if an applicant won't go rogue, as people often put what is called fluff on their applications in order to get hired (and this isn't just a Graal thing, it happens in the real world for college and job applications too). Requirements and certain standards are required because higher ups need people who they think are reliable and don't have much account history. Does account history tell the full story of how a person truly behaviors in the game? No. But it is a good indication of it, and sometimes it's all the higher-ups have.
Giving someone access to RC and the ban tools is a big risk because you are giving the player a lot of power. Yes there are ways to monitor an admin's activity but as you said sometimes certain things slip by. The Soren situation was the peak of that and since then they have been much stricter on what a player does when on their staff account.