Mentor Requirements

[Seraphor]

That would be entirely the point I believe.

Anyone who didn't agree to hold themselves to a higher standard would not be a mentor.

No. You'd just get more self-righteous narcissists who think even more highly of themselves for wearing a Mentor crown.
You can not break the rules, and superficially appear to be helping, while still being a total asshat.

People who genuinely want to help other people will not want to run the risk of being targeted for higher levels of judgement via some Mentor policing system, or leave themselves open for harassment and abuse by people who know they can just 'report' you for a nebulous claim like 'not being helpful' and get your Mentor status removed.

[Krotoan]

No. You'd just get more self-righteous narcissists who think even more highly of themselves for wearing a Mentor crown.
You can not break the rules, and superficially appear to be helping, while still being a total asshat.

People who genuinely want to help other people will not want to run the risk of being targeted for higher levels of judgement via some Mentor policing system, or leave themselves open for harassment and abuse by people who know they can just 'report' you for a nebulous claim like 'not being helpful' and get your Mentor status removed.

It's silly to think that a system like that would be an "ooops I made one person mad, now i'm no longer a mentor" thing.

I'm very interested as to why you in particular are so very negative about putting restrictions and checks on who is a mentor. You don't need a mentor tag to help people. I used to do it all the time before we got the system.

The whole purpose of a checks and review system is so that someone can review what you did after you get so many reports and see that "oh yeah.. that person IS being a jerk even though they're technically helping, maybe we shouldn't have them in the system". If someone wants to feel superior about themselves and they do so by genuinely helping people and not antagonizing anyone.. let em.