Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4486181-20140421205943/@comment-1693968-20140421223702

I'm neutral on this subject ATM, but I do have one suggestion, if we do go through with this.

The only way to truly avoid any major conflict on determining whether we need more user rights would be to have a community vote on when to open/close RfR. This could be done through petitions or a forum, either would work. Basically, once a certain amount of supports had been placed, RfR would open back up. Once someone thinks we have enough, open another petition/forum, and close it down the same way we opened it up. It'd end up being a constant and exhaustive cycle that would primarily be driven by users without rights, but it's the best way I'm able to come up with.

Also, this should only apply to ChatMod and Admin, primarily admin. We literally cannot have too many patrollers, since it's in no way a team effort. Moderator just gets annoying when there's too many; other than that, there's no major downside. Administrator is the biggest problem. When there's too many admins, it gets very difficult to communicate between us. This most likely will be easier with the RfR system, but there are still plenty of things we need to communicate. For one, there's the blocks. It's very beneficial for all administrators to be aware of the major blocks that are currently active. Secondly, there are other decisions, such as policy changes. These technically can be changed by the community, but in the past it's been more effective for the administrators to take care of all the policy related tasks. So my point is that patroller should always be open, moderator should often be open, and administrator should only be open when absolutely needed.