[kaisersouse]

"That provides false hope for players and gives them very little reason to stay with the server in the future, especially if they cannot help.

What you should do just ignore or in extreme, suspend them (like I do) for 1 hour just to make them stop asking. But always do make it explicitly clear that it's possible to become a staff member."

I never said people have no chance of being admin. I simply tell them its earned, and nagging about it will put them out of the running.

In the 10-ish years I've been doing this...I can honestly say that while a small majority of people who ask for admin genuinely want to help...most of the people who ask (and ask and ask) just end up getting fired after a month because all they do is brag about being admin, and show off their powers by abusing players (usually new players, which is worse than abusing old players)