Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-26047195-20150723195216/@comment-4825926-20150726112159

A. Since an admin is the one who actually needs to make the promotion, it is not good that they would just make the promotion without even voting on the candidate. This system would encourage admin participation.

And maybe most importantly, there are many times where a candidate has come up for RFR, where I know things about the candidate that would definitely change most people's votes, but I am unable to say, because it would be too inappropriate for public LMBW, and labeled as slander. I can, however, tell other admins in private, and they can take it into account it their votes. And the same is true for all other admins. In this job we see things about users that most others don't (as creepy as that sounds...)..