Originally Posted by
Bless
You also don't hire a geography teacher to teach art, it's just not what they do. You can tell them what to say etc. but they can never help past that.
So you're saying current help squad members don't know how to play the game? The fact that they don't spend 10 hours per day playing doesn't mean that they can't assist new players.
Originally Posted by Bless
If you want retention rates you want the players to make a bond, you don't give someone a blitz lesson and then just throw them into public servers, you carry through to a point where they can handle themselves.
That is what Unibash did, not TAs. Their job didn't include giving full gameplay lessons, they simply spectated in beginner rooms and answered basic questions.
Originally Posted by Bless
I applied to join, then pulled my application as it seemed that some people were refusing to do anything to help the community unless they held a staff position. Something I thought was stupid, but apparently is a harsh reality. Which actually strengthens my points. Add 'yet another' staff group, and more people may be inclined to help. I don't understand where this point of the name comes from, they are completely different groups with completely different agendas.
HelpSquad is a staff group, if people refuse to join because they don't get ingame admin - sorry, but they won't get it even if we bring back ToriAgents. Special permissions are a tool to do the job, not a reward; and now there is no significant need in having beginner helpers' group even with a halfop.
Also I would really like to know what was the TAs' agenda in your opinion, because from what I remember it was the same as the current task of HS.