Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-26067066-20170106204258/@comment-30777963-20170106225544

Alemas2005 wrote: Jerry Seinfeld wrote: "If the 5 days since the vote was created have already passed" "A request is not required to last 5 days if the following requirements are met"

I know that this is already a vote, but what are we going to accomplish by removing the 96-hour policy? It's only mentioned one time in the policy, with the rest of it referring to a "5-day minimum". If we remove that minimum, then we're only going to extend it to a longer 120 hours (5 days). Or was the 5-day policy superior to the 4-day (96 hour) policy because it was a longer time? Or is it the other way around because the policy directly refers to a 96 hour minimum?

The problem is that the "At least 96 hours must pass before a request can be closed." phrase is repeated in each RfR page, thus creating the impression that it automatically overrides everything else.

By removing this phrase, it would facilitate promotions of candidates who receive an overwhelming amount of support in a couple of days. Take for example TSA's RfR, I should have formally waited for these 96 hours to pass regardless of all the exceptions and other rules in order to close it.

Basically, yeah, these 96 hours were the absolute minimum regardless of all other regulations. So essentially, an abridged version of the RFR policy would be among the lines of:  "All RFRs are required to at least 4 days (or 5 days, according to the rest of the policy). RFRs are to be closed 2 days after the last support/oppose vote was made (if a user switches their vote, the RFR is also to be closed 2 days after their vote was made [ but only if the user switched from oppose to support, support to oppose, neutral to oppose, or support to oppose. The voting period will not be extended if the user changes their vote to neutral or removes their vote entirely. ], but the voting period will only be extended once per user per switch) if 5 days have passed. RFRs can also be closed before the non-existent 5 day requirement if: the RFR has at least 10 oppositions with a 75% majority oppose, or, if the request has reached the required amount of votes with an 85% majority support. At least two supporting or opposing votes from an administrator are required to close a RFR."