Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-5643582-20150508060922/@comment-5643582-20150511050048

Irenic wrote: Can someone explain why this would be beneficial? What makes a person's opinions more valuable because they have 75 edits? A better way to phrase that question: What makes people with less than 75 edits opinions less valuable? I just don't see why you'd restrict the opportunity for valuable insight and dialogue in votes to people who edit more than others. This prevents the opportunity of a new user coming in from somewhere else and providing their opinions, which in all honesty could be strongly beneficial in a vote. External and foreign opinions are always a plus, as they see things from a different point of view than the internal seasoned members of this community. While they might not always be the most familiar users, that doesn't make their votes or opinions any less valuable to the point where they shouldn't be allowed to be submitted. That's just my two cents (but none of what I said will matter if this vote passes). (I'll just copy what I said on the other thread.) New people should get a feel of the wiki before voting. A person joins and votes the same day and they don't even know what they're voting on, or why it's a vote. As for banned members, many times they're trolls and don't have the wiki's well-being in their minds. And if not that then if they've been banned for long periods of time, they don't know the current situations in chat.