The problem with the mentor system

[EaMett]

I'm very interested in what kind of help could be offered by the mentor who now was putting AOE under other players and breaking the mechanics in Arboretum (hard).
Oh, yes, it's just an "one-time experience."

Petty.

Mentors are allowed to learn classes and tunnel vision & make mistakes like everyone else. Mentors are allowed to pull fast and/or big like everyone else. Mentors are allowed to be distracted like everyone, they're allowed to not know everything about the game like everyone else, they're allowed to ask questions like everyone else, they're allowed to be clueless at times just like, you guessed it, everyone else.

In fact this may surprise a lot of people in here but mentors are regular players. And the only purpose the mentor system serves is to allow players to know where and who to turn to if they have a question. There's no guaranty attached to it, the mentor may not know, they may not even feel like answering you if they're busy with something else. This isn't toxic nor is it a failure of the system.

Yes mentors are expected to uphold SE values somewhat more than regular players and I've yet to see any evidence of the contrary (systemic), especially when pit against the behavior of non mentors as a means of comparison. The burden of proof is a thing and falls onto those challenging the status quo. I've also seen a fair share of hasty generalization, non sequitur, and strawman fallacies in this thread coming from those claiming the mentor system is broken.
Enough to stand by what I've said before.

Make suggestions on how to improve the system all you want, it'll benefit everyone. Just don't go making dogmatic claims ad misericordiam