I find it silly staff were using player slots to begin with and can't understand how that system worked really.
Do we really have so few karma 3 players apping in sorcerers that there is a spot open almost always for a staffer to make a character, properly level them up, and not be pissed when someone goes 'Hey, me want sorcerer' *Kicks staffer out of the slot*
Though I wouldn't doubt it, you need 3 karma + a spec app (And we don't have many of those).
Pessimist in me assumes that if a staffer was in a sorcerer spot and didn't want to lose it anyone apping sorcerer in would get arbitrary and confusing declines to their applications, but this is the bad side of my brain and I have nothing to base it on.
Obviously this makes it true. How dare you! (This is a joke, please give me a quiet golf clap)
I do want a personal email from the staffer in question when I kill their sorcerer character's letting me know how cool I am though. Make it an automatic thing for ease of use.