Understanding the DNT (Do Not Trade) rank
I'm not going to get long winded since I've already wrote a serious response and a semi-trolling one to poke some holes in that ego staff have developed and I'm starting to understand why if you guys have violated the checks and balances system that DNT was suppose to represent.
Let me make something clear, abundantly clear;
I have the original documents and entire write up of DNT that was passed onto Sythe on my old laptop, even the rank you guys use today was made by ME. I designed DNT word for word. There is a reason that staff do not have power to decide who gets DNT and who does not. DNT was to act as a checks and balance on staff's power, when it was designed there were rampant issues with elite dust, gun, myself, talon, grave and 5-10 other major community members and back during this time how everything was being seen as having extreme staff bias and staff being vague and unclear about evidence and hiding it.
Clearly you have fallen back into old habits. DNT is not a system staff govern, it is a system that governs staff. Administrators issue the rank, nothing else.
You guys have the power to apply the DNT rules to DNT users, but not the power to decide who gets a DNT or not. DNT was designed to allow a fast-path back for any users that want to return to the community or discord without staff interference. This was for a large variety of reasons and Sythe hit most of them in the sticky given. Do you see any mention of staff determining who gets DNT's? No. Because the system is a check on staff power to let people staff may hold grudges or have biases against back into the community and to boost activity without the hassle of a long winded dispute or pardon that ultimately gets denied.
If you try to say that you have the power to decide who gets a DNT or not, then you only prove my point that staff have gone past powercreeping into violating the checks and balances put on the team. DNT is pointless if staff govern who comes back and who does not; that is the pardon's system job and staff retain that ultimate power, if you respond to this thread saying you as a team discussed DNT and decided u have the power now to decide who is issued them you might as-well permanently remove DNT because you have violated it's fundamental principle to act as a check on your power against community users that may want to return in a limited way.
I would make sure you make the correct choice here and issue my DNT. I meet the requirements and frankly, you dont have the right to not issue it. Staff do not govern issuing DNT's, you govern the people with them through the DNT rules. I would remind staff that my system bought this forum years, arguably saved it from it's inevitable death because DNT acts as a fast-track back that moves aside the lengthy staff process, staff discussions and staff team's opinons in favor of a quick return and ease.
Seriously. I'm serious here, if you guys are governing who gets DNT's delete the system because you've ruined it's purpose.