Hi Donovan,
Personally, I disagree with your suggestion. Here's why.
- It's true that there aren't many Spanish-speaking moderation members at all. However, keep in mind that (from my experience) the amount of Spanish tickets and appeals is definitely lower than the amount of English ones. Understandable that it takes longer since there's less staff, but there's also less need for a large amount of Spanish-speaking staff members because of to this.
- Sure, the mod team could use a few more Spanish-speaking mods, though I believe they will find some that speak Spanish AND English eventually as they don't need 10 or 15, but maybe 2-3 would already make a difference and I don't think the requirement of speaking English has to be lifted to find those.
- Something very important in my opinion, is team spirit. The moderation team would not be able to maintain a good team spirit between these teams if they can't communicate with each other, let alone host staff events or ask each other for help.
- Your proposed solution in itself isn't necessarily a bad idea, though there are a few more factors you need to take into account, which is why I don't think your suggestion isn't realistic or necessary.
- Moderators need to apply for Helper first. They are led by an amazing team of Helper Mentors - other mods that help them learn about the ins and outs of CubeCraft moderation. Firstly, to implement your idea, this team would need to speak Spanish in order to explain things and to bond with the Helper. Putting together a Spanish-speaking Helper Mentor team would be completely unrealistic for the amount of Spanish-speaking mods CubeCraft could use because there are no Spanish-speaking Helper mentors. This is something that would already be out of the question as training Helpers is a time-consuming project a team is needed for rather than just one person. Next, there is a whole bunch of information the Helper needs to learn, so this information would then have to be translated into Spanish as well, which would take up vast amounts of time. Besides that, you also brought up the need for Sr. Mods that speak Spanish. As there currently is only one Spanish-speaking mod (no Sr. Mod) besides Capitan himself, all applications would need to be translated first for the other Sr. Mods for the application to be discussed properly, another task that will take up a lot of time for something just not quite worth that time in my opinion.
- If there were to be Spanish-speaking mods that only speak Spanish, they just wouldn't have a lot to work with. Like I said at the beginning, Spanish tickets, appeals etc are (again, from my experience) a minority compared to the English ones. This applies to all languages other than English and is pretty logical. So training a mod that only speaks Spanish, let alone an entire team would just be a bit over the top if you ask me.
- As someone else already brought up, there are quite some other languages used on the server as well, so it would be a bit unfair to only drop the requirement of speaking English for people who speak Spanish. For example, the moderation team has more members that speak Dutch, because a vast amount of players on the server also speaks Dutch. Naturally, you're going to get more helper applications of Dutch players. If this would be the case for Spanish as well, I'm sure we will see some Spanish-speaking helpers pop up sooner or later.