Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-5643582-20150722164433/@comment-4845243-20150727205253

@Goggles

Of course a thorough investigation is needed if the admins are going to be carrying out the demotions ourselves. There needs to be clear evidence of demotion-worthy behavior. However, the information threshold is still rather low. The things that lead to demotion are obvious — such as clearly violating one of our policies. The things that should lead to promotion are often subjective, as different people look for different things in mods/admins/etc. For me to fully support someone for any given rights, I need to know them well and be aware of things that are often hard to perceive over the internet, like character. But we don't demote people for character flaws, we demote them for violating the policy in abusive, disruptive ways. And although it does require careful investigation, it is relatively easy to do since what we are looking for is concrete, rather than practically opinion-based.

I'm still on the fence myself as well, but there are big differences between demotions and promotions nonetheless.