Sure!
A known problem back in 2014-2015 was staff banning people from in-game events for harassment and spam. Granted, spamming in-game was against the rules, but there were plenty of cases where "harassment" was boiled down to saying "fuck you" to the staff in charge, because of prior run-ins with the particular user. I do not know how common this still is, but I can reasonably assume it still occurs at least on occasion, as we are all humans.
I'm not saying that these weren't reviewed later and overturned, nor am I saying I fault the staff entirely in the moment, but the argument they were intended to support was thus; Members of staff are prone to knee-jerk reactions, like common users, but they hold power that they must be responsible with. Thusly, when they do things like this, they must be held to a higher level of scrutiny.
If you wanted specifics, I'm not positive I can access the ban reports from 2014-2015 anymore, with me no longer being staff, and I'm not sure they'd even still be there, with the propensity we have to wipe backlogs, so I apologize.
In contrast, things like power abuse are treated very heavy handed (as they should be). Just like you stated, staff can and SHOULD be held to a higher standard than regular users. Due to the sensitive nature of when staff are caught abusing their power, I'm not going to feel comfortable dropping names.
Staff in general have had a historic problem with abuse of power in response to being shit-talked at by a user, so yes, they need to grow a thicker skin. Conversely, users need to realize that if we expect people to be able to voice any opinion, there will be retaliation towards that opinion, and sometimes that will be in the form of shit-talking. They need to be able to deal with that and have a thicker skin.
In short, everyone needs to grow the fuck up and stop being such babies.
My access to staff complaints (and the entire help section) was removed (and threads deleted) because I called bullshit on sir's handling of one of my complaints. He also threatened to remove the rest of my posting permissions.
Iirc, I made a complaint about Icky's closing of a complaint I made against Reta (about power-amuse). Rules dictated that complaints could only be closed by the person in charge of the complainee (both Reta and Icky were admins at the time). So I made a complaint about Icky not following the rules of the board. Sir then got involved, refused to take my complaint seriously, and told me to stop complaining or else. Obviously I continued to complain.
May have mixed up a detail or two there - It was a while ago and sir (or whoever) deleted all threads relating to this. But basically, my permissions were removed because I was complaining too much. I saw my complaints as justified, they saw them as frivolous. Their perspective won in the end (since evidently, their perspective is the only one that matter). Why should they bother taking my perspective seriously when they can just remove my posting permissions and save themselves the hassle.
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