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Avalair·6/18/2016 in Community Voting

On Retired/Inactive Users Voting

The title is pretty self-explanatory.

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</noscript> Anyway, to elaborate a little, its rather common for users to put up RfRs and then have users who have been retired or inactive come back and oppose just because they hold grudges towards the person running. I find this unfair because if a user has been retired for 6 months, they only know what the running user was like 6 months ago. They don't know if they changed, and typically they dont even want to accept the fact that they changed if they did. And thus, in that example, a user who should have no say in what rights another user has, throws off an RfR. This is also an occurence on Community Votes. Say we're holding a vote to unblock a word on chat and a user who hasnt been on chat in three months and will not be coming on again any time soon opposes the unblocking of the word. It just seems very unfair to me.

Anyway, the specifics of determing if a user is inactive is going to be complicated so if the vote passes I will create another vote to follow this one and we can vote on the specifics. :P

Votes

Should we allow retired or inactive users to vote on RfR's or Community Votes?

A) No. 2 Votes.

B) Yes. 19 Votes.

C) Only allow them to vote on RfRs.

D) Only allow them to vote on Community Votes. 1 Vote.

Consensus

B) Yes, retired/inactive users should be allowed to vote.

(Edited by Avalair)

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RusMan·6/19/2016

B.

(Edited by RusMan)

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EvilMidnightNG·6/19/2016

B.

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Man.city1·6/19/2016

B , obviously .mthey still are part of the wiki and could make a comeback...

(Edited by Man.city1)

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Johnyjo·6/19/2016

B

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EtherealSpirit·6/19/2016

Hey, I know that this isn't an option but their vote could be considered as a half vote... I mean, they shouldn't blindly make a choice but we shouldn't deny them from making choices.

(Edited by EtherealSpirit)

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Eagleeyedan·6/19/2016

B

Just because a user is inactive doesn't mean they shouldn't have a say in how the community is run. They may be temporarily inactive, or be planning on coming back etc. If they still take the time and effort to come back and express their opinion, it should be just as valid as anyone else's

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JMW wolfpack·6/19/2016

Riolu777 wrote:
I'm not sure how much I want to limit voting access if I don't yet know what constitutes an "inactive" user, so I won't vote until we can get working confines established.

perfectly said. I agree.

(Edited by JMW wolfpack)

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Slicer Vorzakh·6/19/2016

B

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Leinad~·6/19/2016

D, because I feel like voting on a potential staff member requires more knowledge of that person's current state and relationship with the community, but the community itself never really changes much so if someone wants to come out of inactivity to vote on something that might make them feel more inclined to stay, I think they ought to be able to.

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Marcel77799·6/20/2016

B.

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