Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4964341-20160603152044/@comment-4964341-20160607035033

Loney 97 wrote: Keplers wrote: Loney 97 wrote: Asking someone to vote and asking someone to support are two different things, just pointing that out. Specifically asking that a user support you is what isn't allowed by that policy. Asking them to vote, asking them to rethink based on new information, asking them to clarify something - those are completely allowed already. And that's what I'm saying should be allowed -- asking someone to support you. It's called campaigning and every republic or democracy in the free world does it. I don't think we need the unnecessary bias of asking that a user support you rather than just asking that they vote - you can still make your case and everything, but just asking for a vote prevents people from thinking 'hey this is my friend, I'll support because they're my friend' and not just because they think that person would be a good mod or admin. It's a bias that we don't need, and we aren't allowing anything new here besides that bias. The only thing new here is people saying 'Hey support me' instead of saying 'Hey vote on my RfR'

Again, every democracy does this and I honestly don't see a problem. I honestly hope we're mature enough to vote on the grounds of competency -- I know I have done that with my friends and voted against them.