Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-26216388-20150506170525/@comment-26216388-20150507221537

Da Weirdo wrote: Starrocks923 wrote: Da Weirdo wrote: Neutral, I don't know what we're voting on. And that, my friend, is why you read the thread you are posting on. I tried but I'm still confused.

I know from chat that you just got off the computer but you'll see this anyway so I'll just explain this as best as I can.

So, there are two ways to get rights at this wiki: Recommendations For Rights and Requests For Rights. Recommendations for Rights was once completely dead, but then one of our admins, Alemas, noticed it and decided to try and get it removed. However, he only brought up the reason that it was dead. Then some people started to use it again, thanks to Alemas bringing more attention to it.

So later, the Petitions system comes into play. The Petitions system was a system where at least 20 users needed to agree to a proposed idea. Then, all the admins got together and voted on the idea. However, since the admins decide the outcome in the end, not the users, some people started to dislike the idea. I brought up how 20 users isn't much of the community on the chat, and Spiderman brought up the admin part. So Spiderman created a community vote to remove the petitions. In the end, the vote passed and petitions were removed, making the more democratic Community Voting system take over.

So now more reasons to remove Recommendations for Rights come up. With RecFR, a user needs to be recommended for a certain right 10 times, and then the admins vote on it. I realize that the same reasons petitions were removed would apply to this. 10 users is a very small part of the community, and the admins decide the outcome in the end. With Requests for Rights, the whole community votes on who gets rights, after a user who wants rights puts up a request. With ReqFR to replace RecFR, like Community Voting was there to fill in the hole that the removal of Petitions created, all the reasons for Petitions being removed applied to RecFR. Thus, this vote was created.