Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-24675554-20150519000243/@comment-5535873-20150519192942

Starrocks923 wrote: MeltE2 wrote:

ToneTyphoon wrote:

MeltE2 wrote: Can any of you explain what this accomplishes? If someone votes on something without "learning what the wiki is about" is that really going to hurt anyone? It will be one or two votes at the most. Are you all just scared that perhaps some new user from another wiki will say something completely irrelevant to the discussion and convince some people to change their votes and thus harm the community? :O And by blocking that completely plausible situation, you will also potentially shield the community from expert advice and viewpoints from more successful wikis.

So just, why? I don't see what's wrong with giving their advice, but why do we have to do what they say?

Let's make our own freaking decisions. You don't have to do what they say, lol. I'm just saying this will most likely do more harm then good, by not allowing outside users to give their opinions. Okay. That makes sense.

...In that case, why don't we change the minimum edit requirements for voting in RFR too? Because RFRs are a bit of a different matter, in those cases it's pretty much necessary for those voting to know at least a bit about users asking for rights, otherwise they have nothing to base their votes on.

On community votes and discussions, that isn't so important, opinions could still be given based on what works for other communities, or what is just good practice.