Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-25995065-20150317063943/@comment-3978541-20150319190209

Bourgeoisie wrote:

Starrocks923 wrote:

Bourgeoisie wrote:

Starrocks923 wrote:

Bourgeoisie wrote: If there's any misconception about this, this doesn't take away administrators' ability to oppose community votes. If something is truly so bad for the community and all the administrators agree, that's a bunch of opposing votes. Then you'll have the people who read the admins' reasoning and agree with it. There's really no chance for something as negative as some people fear to happen. And again, Wikia Terms of Use will prevent anything negative happening to the wiki or the community itself. If anything leads to something negative happening within the community, Wikia Terms of Use can also protect that. I don't see why everyone is in fear that this would have negative impacts, seeing as the policy has never been put into use, and more or less never will need to be. What DOES it take away though? A tool that can only be used when 12 specific users who can never agree on anything are in full agreement? Removing such a tool is virtually useless. Why would you want it out of the way? Because having it is just as useless. All it does is continues to assert the misconception that administrators have authority over the average user and that their user rights are "powers". Without this policy, they'd still have all the rights to oppose things as they do currently, just without the unnecessary "we can have the final say if we want to" thing. So, in other words, it becomes a problem when one of the Admins decides to act like a 5-year old who wants something, and therefore we need to waste time dealing with it? It becomes a problem when one of the admins asserts their opinion over what the rest of the community agrees on. You are probably too young to remember this, but the U.S.A. once had a president who lost the popular vote but still got the position. I'm not saying the US system is perfect, but there are times when the community needs to be kept in check, hence there are checks and balances at all levels, including the admins. We have continually allowed for more and more community involvement, but there is a limit. I don't want to open this can of worms right now, I have pressing assignments, so that is all I will say on this topic for now. ▂▃▅▆▇█▓▒░Eagleeyedan▒░▓█▇▆▅▃▂