Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4845243-20150228004311/@comment-25995065-20150228013421

Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: Bourgeoisie wrote: Benboy755 wrote: Same as patroller. Requirements for patroller are already stupid. Patroller is merely a couple extra tools for editing in less-common ways, yet you guys have it go through a community request and voting process, which is waaaay more extensive for such a minuscule user right. Well, it makes sense to have an edit requirement for patrollers, don't you think? And pretty much anyone who runs for patroller gets it, as they only need ten supports.

Edit requirement, sure. Most wikis do that. Going 6 weeks without a chat ban or block? Block is a bit more understandable, but chat ban? Not really... Chat does not have anything to do with the wiki. This is what prevented me from getting patroller rights.

Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: Bourgeoisie wrote:
 * 1) User has not been banned in the past month
 * 2) User has at least 100 mainspace contributions (to show they actually do stuff on the wiki)
 * 3) User has at least 100 contributions to forums
 * 4) User is familiar with wiki policy and how to enforce it
 * 5) User has not received any warnings in the past 1-3 months about spam or vandalism on the wiki or in forums (does this wiki give warnings on talk pages?)

Those are just some basic ideas I have. Those are some good ideas. We do give warnings on message walls, although these don't use an official template or anything. For familiarity with policy, however, that's just something people should look for when voting, right? Otherwise admins could delete a request if they think the user doesn't understand the policy well (which might not be a horrible idea, but it gives admins a lot more authority with user rights). Yeah, that would be best reserved for when voting. Perhaps include it as an advised skill for those who request rights to have though. Brickipedia had a "User rights request checklist" thing that listed things like skills, qualifications and mindsets that a user should make sure they have before requesting rights. A universal one of those for user rights requests here could be useful maybe.