About a year or so ago, the community made the decision to make a lot of admin-only content available to OPs. This included: senior admin applications, permban requests, forum sanctions, and there is probably more.
While I get that we should be transparent with OPs, I just don't agree with being so transparent with this content. Ultimately, the reason why forum sanctions and permban requests were made accessible were so players could "defend themselves". If they want to defend themselves, they should have the common sense to message an admin. In permanent ban requests, there could be content that would allow an OP to see methods to crash the server, IPs (even though they are public information, many OPs value their privacy and would prefer their IP to stay private), and more. It also isn't someone's business to know why an OP got punished - that should be an admin only matter.
OPs shouldn't have access to Senior Admin applications - I believe the entire reason for making them publicly accessible was since there were other categories that were being made public, this became public as well. Senior Admin should be voted for by experienced players on the server, and you cannot trust the integrity of an OP. Admins are experienced and that was how Senior Admin Applications started to begin with.
Now, I know this can seem wrong in hindsight. As Ryan said yesterday, the transparency argument is a "double edged sword". It has both its pros and cons. Let me know your thoughts down below.