User blog comment:Caysie98/The innermost thoughts of Caysie's head/@comment-4845243-20130318013749

Editing Pages
To be honest, people hardly ever boast about edit count anymore. It used to be worse, but I haven't heard anyone boast about it in a long time. And can be a good thing to have lots of edits, though I dislike boasting about anything.

I do agree that people should be adding legit content to short pages (not just stubs. Lot's of short pages escape the stub template).

Chat
I'm not sure precisely what you mean by "lighten up on the rules". Do you mean, be lax and enforce them less?

IMO, that wouldn't help anything; it would create more chaos. What we need to do is rewrite the rules in a better form. And that is happening already.

About the blocked words. Those are staying. Really, they are unnecessary most of the time, and are primarily terms to use for insults. The exception is "idiotic" which can be used to refer to things as opposed to people (and things don't have feelings ). Jerk and idiot, however, are insults. Of course, moron is just as bad...

As for cr**. That is considered a bad word on this wiki, and is not allowed on blogs. Please remove/censor it (the admins have removed it from other blogs, so unless you want them to do it for you...)

Admins
I disagree here. Pure democracy is not a good form of government, and electing admins has never been the practice here. For good reason. You can read the admin policy if you want to know why. Admins are chosen by the people who know what it takes to be admin on this particular wiki, the admins. The majority of users have little knowledge about what it takes to be an admin on this wiki.

Every wiki is different. Sure, lots of us are admins on different wikis, maybe even big ones. But it doesn't mean we know who would be ready for the job here. The ones who best know that are the current admins, and that is why they are the ones who pick who will be promoted to admin next.

What would happen if we had an election is popular but not-ready users being promoted, and the result: we'd be worse off than we are now.

Promotions
I think I've covered why the community as a whole should not choose who to promote. The admins know what it takes, and are best qualified to choose the next promotions.