+1
As someone who has been over on the TTT side of Garnet for almost a year now this has always baffled me. I guess the $50 will benefit the server but allowing moneybag assholes to bypass the approval of the majority of the staff team isn’t the greatest of ideas. I remember having a few altercations with @west when he was a VIP Mod, who had his application denied, and he ended up getting community banned out of it from another circumstance.
As someone who has never staffed DarkRP, but as someone who has played DarkRP many an occasion, having to deal with a mass population of players (even if some of them are alts printer farming) is a bit of a responsibility. Not everyone is capable of being a staff member, even when dealing with a small population like TTT, with DarkRP this logic is tripled. Having the quality control on who becomes staff is important, one hood staff member who can continue to grow the community outweighs 4 staff with access to daddy’s credit card directing potential regulars elsewhere.
Players who want to support the server have many other options in the donation menu, so it’s not like we are removing a huge asset from donations. Toxic players shouldn’t have the option to lengthen their stay by becoming staff. It ultimately wastes the time of the staff who applied legitimately.
P.S. Writing 2 paragraphs isn’t much of a mental stress anyway.