[quote=@Lady Amalthea]
	Thought not a technical forum suggestion for improvement of the overall form and performance of the forum I am here by suggesting that a third party council be implemented on the forum for Ban/Staff Review. A collection of long good standing forum members that are not members of the staff and as unbiased as possible to review complaints of bans, member, and staff when needed. 

	After having read through several issues, old and new, here on the forum I feel it is impertinent that such a [i]council[/i] be put into place so there is a proper set of checks and balances for all on the forum to help give the members better peace of mind and staff people they are held accountable to. 

	Lady A~
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This just doesn't sound viable to me.

Firstly, to whom does this special council answer? Where is the complete circle of checks and balances?

Who determines what people go onto the council? Is it popular vote [s]that can be manipulated by personal opinion[/s]? Is it the staff [s]invalidating the point[/s]? Would it be Mahz himself [s]when you have people questioning him, and who'll simply discredit the team as being specially hand-picked[/s]?

How does it work? To me, it seems to add a level of bureaucracy that would be avoided by the alternative suggestion of s taff being more transparent in their procedures in the first place. Bureaucracy isn't good, not from my experience. It simply adds a level of complication, and if you can't trust the staff to be neutral, you can't trust a crew of players to somehow have better judgement - especially when current staff have a foothold in the ranks of established players.

Checks and balances are all well and good, but they need a very, very well established plan to be put in place to ensure they actually work. The United States didn't just wake up one day and go "congress is being a bitch, lets put in a supreme court" - the system has to be implemented early, and if it isn't, it's either going to fail - or it's going to need trust on all parties to implement. Based on the reasoning for suggesting such a measure, that trust wouldn't even exist for those who want it most.