Mentors...please!

[Alaeacus]

You're dramatizing. If you bother to read the beginning of the thread, you will see what is at stake.
https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/w...Novice_Network

Mentors are veteran players who chose to offer their time and experience to help guide new adventurers. To facilitate their assistance, mentors will gain access to a special chat channel as well as a means to easily register for duties and trials with new players.

As a mentor you are expected to actively perform the following:

Provide gameplay advice for new adventurers and other players.
Be an exemplar for player etiquette.
Invite new adventurers to the Novice Network and answer their queries in the chat channel.

But if you consider this a masochism, then, unfortunately, there is nothing to be done.

Nope, not dramatizing at all based on one simple point:

"Be an exemplar for player etiquette."

This one simple, but vague, rule that you have chosen to outline is interpreted one-thousand different ways by players. Players have their own internal interpretation for what the words "Exemplar" and "Etiquette" mean, and these players force their own interpretations onto Mentors. If Mentors don't live up to a player's standards, they come to the forums and throw a hissy-fit against the Mentor system.

It's SE's fault for writing such a terribly vague statement in a rule set without defining terms, and it's the player's fault for expecting Mentors to act like Mother Theresa. An exemplar for one culture is vastly different than an exemplar for another. Etiquette is VASTLY different across cultures. There are NO universal truths for what an exemplar, or good etiquette, actually means.

If you think everyone around you should uphold and abide by the standards of etiquette that you personally find important, than you have already lost at life.