Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4845243-20150718191558/@comment-4845243-20150719011819

@Spy:

1) Okay.

2) I suppose there is a slight possibility, but it's unlikely, as there would not be anything discussed there that is directly relevant to whether someone should be given the ability to promote other users to bureaucrat, admin, and bot. You may counter that bureaucrats must be trusted, because they cannot be demoted by local user groups, and this is true. However, if anything an admin says in private indicates that they would abuse their rights in such an atrocious way (the only fear is that they could go on a vandalizing, demoting, and blocking spree and couldn't be stopped by local user groups), then they should immediately be demoted and the problem ends there. Furthermore, I could easily phalanx a bureaucrat and ask staff to come demote them, so that's hardly an issue at all.

RE: your off-topic comment: No, I said blocks are an exception. We don't discuss blocks on the wiki.

3) Yes, they can, which is why we need a vote to decide if we should be consistent with our policy or if we should change it.

Yeah, it does seem that way. I'm not actually trying to change your vote, I just wanted to make sure there's no confusion on any issues. You're certainly entitled to your opinions.