Board Thread:Community Discussions/@comment-26047195-20150723034158/@comment-26047195-20150723142227

Harold89 wrote: I would also like to point out that this same issue was happening for emoticon voting, until a vote was created and passed that emoticons would need to stay up for 8 days and only then would see if it passed the requirement of 75 percent support and 15 supports. See Thread:204312 and Thread:210364.

The success of this vote made sure that no emotes simply passed because a small group of users reached the support amount in a short period of time. This also gave  the majority of those active on the wiki time to lend their opinion and choose to support or oppose. Harry presents a good point here, with our past decisions on disallowing the emoticon votes to pass too quickly. I believe this is all the more reason to implement the minimum time requirement on our RfR's, as consistency is essential to building and maintaining a solid political structure in our community: Why do we require a minimum of time before closing an emoticon vote, but don't have that requirement for our RfR's? (which are honestly far more important than a vote of adopting a 19px image for usage in our live chat) If we can't be consistent with our guidelines, then we give room for weaknesses and flaws to taint aspects of our structure.