[TDawg4]

My take on this has not really changed even with all of the posts. Personally, if I had been asked about @RyanHighman s unresigniation I would have pushed for trusted. Personally, I think the timing as well as his engagement with the community is what pushed the admins to just do a full reinstatement but I don't have any insight to the decision process. I agree with the people that support a set process for unresignations and also agree that it probably should not apply to this application. There are a few cases of people truely unresigning at higher ranks, but I think all of those directly involved Dink.

Maybe the right policy would be to drop the person a rank down but still have the full time window before the next application.

Directly to you Panda, I think that to my surprise part of what brother roach said fits pretty well. There is an aspect of community trust that was lost (at least for the people who don't interact with you outside of server/disc). I think you have made pretty clear that you had major issues with how staff was handling a variety of things, and you felt you couldn't say what you wanted to within the role. "As I had resigned I felt more freedom to not have to calm down situations and say what i felt." I think a lot of the people who resigned during the time felt this way; this is probably too broad of a brush, but when you resigned, somewhat in protest (imo), and have a genuine issue with staff members of the community are going to have questions about what has tangibly changed since. I mean just two months ago you described an admin as the "master dismisser of misogyny." I don't know how the entire staff culture would have changed in that time.
Not leaking staff chat but when we had that discussion before you resigned I do think you had strong points and I think in principle pretty much all the staff are in agreement on most things. Application is where things get difficult and issues crop up.

+1 for trusted because I DO think you are a positive presence on server and generally as staff.
I am -1 for Mod.

You can dm me if you want anything fleshed out more or just reply in here.