Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-26067066-20170106204258/@comment-5052737-20170106221720

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: "If the 5 days since the vote was created have already passed" "A request is not required to last 5 days if the following requirements are met"

I know that this is already a vote, but what are we going to accomplish by removing the 96-hour policy? It's only mentioned one time in the policy, with the rest of it referring to a "5-day minimum". If we remove that minimum, then we're only going to extend it to a longer 120 hours (5 days). Or was the 5-day policy superior to the 4-day (96 hour) policy because it was a longer time? Or is it the other way around because the policy directly refers to a 96 hour minimum?

The problem is that the "At least 96 hours must pass before a request can be closed." phrase is repeated in each RfR page, thus creating the impression that it automatically overrides everything else.

By removing this phrase, it would facilitate promotions of candidates who receive an overwhelming amount of support in a couple of days. Take for example TSA's RfR, I should have formally waited for these 96 hours to pass regardless of all the exceptions and other rules.

Basically, yeah, these 96 hours were the absolute minimum regardless of all other regulations.