Word. Yeah, apps aren't perfect, but they're probably never going to be. People are always going to slip through the cracks who you wish you hadn't accepted, whatever you do about it, and the solution definitely isn't to make apps this weird intensive game wide test drive experience that's a bigger pain in the ass for everybody involved, including existing players who I'd prefer to see tagging more stuff in game than test driving. Like, apps are fine. Two samples is usually enough to get an idea of how good someone is; on the occasion I'm not sure after reading them I just ask a player for another one.

Honestly, most of the players I've ever let into games I've run that I've regretted have been ones where I knew from the app that something was up but decided to cut them some slack, and the more I mod the more I learn not to do that. I can think of maybe one player whose app impressed me but who turned out to be garbage, and the thing is that person didn't show her ass until months after we let her in. She had loads of great threads and then abruptly took a one way turn into garbage town and started making everybody uncomfortable. So... we booted her. It was a pain, but if we'd had some kind of test drive vetting system like people are talking about here she would still have passed with flying colors.