Board Thread:Community Discussions/@comment-5052737-20150516210118/@comment-4257955-20150518183615

Goggles99 wrote: Goggles99 wrote: I refuse to vote on this. If some Admins can't treat this seriously and view Reccomendations as seperate from Requests, the whole process becomes pointless, and there's really no logical reason to continue. Just to clarify, all I was saying is that if you're going to base how you vote here on the outcome of a previous 'Request For Rights' vote system, there's really no point in having this one. It's ridiculous.

If you really want to get technical, you can count my statement as a neutral vote (Just a really fierce one......rawr..) If anything that's just taking the community's opinion into mind for a decision. That shouldn't be a bad thing at all, and should be a factor in an admin's thought-process for any decision. If an admin just led the wiki and made decisions solely off of their opinions and beliefs and didn't take in any other outside influences (like community input), that would be quite dangerous. Of course, we all reserve the right to our opinions and the freedom to voice those opinions, but someone in leadership should be willing and open to hearing and contemplating and perhaps entertaining other opinions in an effort to foster cooperation and compromise. In this case, that would be the community and their divided stance on Star's previous request for CM. Only ten people recommended him (which is a flaw in the RecFR system, I believe), and that's a minority compared to the whole wiki.

I personally think that Star could actually make a pretty good CM, but I'm still on the fence because at least half of the wiki's active members don't seem to agree with that, per his ReqFR. They brought up good concerns and I feel it would be somewhat tyrannical to not listen to those and instead only listen to whatever my gut or intuition is telling me.

But that's how I work. :p