Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-26944420-20160917185711/@comment-4964341-20160918161324

Brick425 wrote: Michaelyoda wrote: Brick425 wrote: Michaelyoda wrote: Brick425 wrote: Michaelyoda wrote: Brick425 wrote: Harold89 wrote: Definitely B.

If option A passes, it will give only the extremely active users a chance to participate in our wiki's democratic process. Option B still gives slightly less active users a chance to vote (and this "slightly less active" group is a larger and just as important part of this community). While this is a good point, the more users vote, the longer the vote will stay up. Often times the vote stays up for days, sometimes more than a week. I know we want a good consensus, but our goal with the votes is action. And that simply won't happen if there's always just a few more users that have to vote. Is efficiency more important than the voice? We already have policy in place regarding votes where there is a clear consensus. All this vote does is cut off a large portion of the community because they weren't around for 24 hours. I've already explained that 80% support is insane. With a community this big, that's next to impossible. ... http://legomessageboards.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:271051

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12 out of 25 CVs since August 3rd achieved an 80% majority. That's near half our votes in the last month and a half.

I rest my case. I meant for votes which... You know... Have counterarguments. You mean the close votes in which each person could potentially swing the vote the other way?

One person swinging a vote the other way could only happen if it's a close vote and only around 5 or 6 people have voted. I'm talking about controversial votes, such as unblocking words, for example. I have seen plenty of events where the vote was ludicrously conclusive and some moron or another comes on and votes for the unpopular option, despite there being absolutely no chance of it succeeding.