My suggestion is to have normal players not have the privileges to view staff applications. This is to prevent flame wars, and people applying getting their feelings hurt because someone said something very rude to them, and they locking their application when they were in fact a great candidate. grammer teacher does it look good?
http://www.ecocitycraft.com/forum/threads/suggestion-privatize-staff-application-section.134642/ already covers this - I'm unsure myself but would just like to let you know that you aren't the first to suggest this.
