Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-24675554-20160815002016/@comment-4041224-20160817124544

Michaelyoda wrote: Riolu777 wrote: I'm voting A because it's become alarming to me how much bureaucracy has piled up over all of these policies and votes and threads. I've been poring over the discussions the past few hours and the only thing I've gleaned is that this place is acting like a pseudo-government and not a website. Point me to another wiki that has an equivalent amount of politics as this one. I've been a huge fan of the democracy and community involvement that's been sweeping in the past few years, but wasn't that supposed to make things more efficient? It is so hard to have a simple vote on moderator efficacy? This isn't debate club.

I also still oppose the wholesale demotion of inactive mods but I suppose we can't have one without the other in this case. If the basis of allowing more community involvement was to make things more efficient, then I would call for the demotion of all likeminded staff on grounds of incompetency.

democracy is never efficient; i don't know why anyone would ever assume it was. there's a reason that up until the second half of the 20th century many nations had an constitutional clause for near-dictatorial control in times of national emergency.