Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-5643582-20150722164433/@comment-4845243-20150727001052

@Goggles

There is actually a huge difference between promoting and demoting that changes how things should be approached. To know if someone should be promoted, you need a lot of information. You need to know about the character of the individual, about their activity levels, about their modding philosophy, etc.

For a demotion, the information necessary is rather simple — is the user being abusive or disruptive? If they are, they should not have rights, and a demotion can be carried out.

A coherent paradigm for administration can definitely exist wherein promotion is solely within the purview of the entire community, but demotions are primarily within the purview of the admin team. Personally, I'm somewhat conflicted on this topic. An attempt to create a system for demoting people by popular vote could be extremely messy, but on the other hand the amount of red tape it takes to get through to demote someone is rather ineffective. Since demotions are rare occurrences, however, I'm not sure a system is needed.