Thread:Drew1200/@comment-5311834-20140725185139/@comment-1693968-20140730133715

I'm going to make one last comment on this thread before closing it, so that you can all understand my reasoning better. There doesn't seem to be anything constructive coming out of this thread anymore, so I don't think we should continue. If you feel like responding to my post, feel free to leave me another message, but you won't be able to use this thread.

I'm aware that at the time the request was closed, it was below the 75% requirement. I was aware of that when I closed it, but I still made the decision to pass the request. It may have been wrong of me to do so without consulting other admins, so I'm sorry if you had expected me to do so. But I still hold my opinion, and fully believe that I took the right action. There's two major reasons why the request was successful.

First of all, it did break 75% over the weekend before dropping below that requirement again. You are correct if you said that it was still open, it was fair game, or anyone could change their vote. It wasn't closed, so it was still active. But there were also, to keep in mind, Mad, 27 supporters, and potentially many neutral voters who expected the request to pass. The only thing that really happened to change the consensus was Klint moving from support to oppose. That alone is enough to sway the entire vote by 5%. Being that the vote was still supportive enough to be considered a super majority, I didn't feel as if it'd be right to change the consensus of the entire wiki based on one user switching from support to oppose. Really, this entire point is a summary of what you guys have been using this thread to argue about. The request wasn't closed on time, votes changed, and everything was a mess. I felt, after considering everything, that it'd be most fair to everyone to pass the request.

The second reason, and probably the most significant one, is that we need new admins. Alemas and Spy are like the only admins we have here. There's a couple others, like myself, who are around occasionally, but we're not here enough to get much work done. It takes more than two users to run a wiki this size, and I think we have been suffering from the lack of admins. Even though I opposed Mad's request, this reason made me want to look for ways that I could allow it to be successful. No offense to Mad, but he's not my ideal choice for an admin. But I still trust him with the rights, and I know he'll use them to benefit the wiki. In some ways, you could even call this just being desperate for more admins. Regardless of all of that, it is a fact that we're low on admins, and if there's anyway possible to get another responsible user into that role, then we should be willing to take it.

I really have no argument as to why, legally speaking, that this should have been successful vs unsuccessful. But I do believe, based on the above two points, that it was the most prudent and beneficial course of action available.