Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-5643582-20150722164433/@comment-4825926-20150727074549

@Obi: Actually, the only imaginable difference that I can see between the treatment of demotions and promotions is the rare occasion where a speedy demotion is called for. Such as when a user who holds rights goes on an all-out rage attack against LMBW. Other than that, both demotions and promotions should be treated with equal care, thought and intent. Ironically, especially in the ways you mentioned.

To know if someone should be demoted, you also need "a lot of information", or at the very least, some solid damnatory evidence against the user in question. Especially using this new proposed system. Believe it or not, we would have to actually look into the demotion requests and "investigate" them, at least somewhat. You might want it to be more simple than that, but I'm afraid it wouldn't be :P

Yes, logically speaking, both demotions and promotions should be very simple. But I'm afraid this is the real world, and they rarely ever are. As our wise Chipika says; "This is LMBW, dearie, common sense doesn't exist here". We are just as likely to have someone entirely ill-suited, running for rights, as we are to have someone unfairly put up for demotion, and both are just as bad.

All in all, still on the fence over this whole thing. I'm all for a more efficient demotion system, but I'm not sure this would achieve that.

Like I said before, we as a community really need to agree on just what this wiki's administration is, and what role it plays. A lot of our disagreements on things like this can be traced back to that.