Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-1878162-20130202053555/@comment-20644-20130205214543

LurkSAR - my reasoning for continuing this discussion here, rather than on chat, is because I think this wiki would benefit from making this process as transparent as possible. There are no logs on chat, so people can't go back and read what was said.

If there is going to be criteria for who can be nominated, rather than just letting anyone be nominated for admin, then that criteria should be discussed by the community first. This wiki is prone to letting biases come into play, so at least hearing what people have to say about that first would be helpful for me if I'm the one running this election. It's not a huge issue, criteria is simple enough for an admin election, but I'd be more comfortable having a community discussion about that first.

I'm not certain what the overall benefit of having a vote reason would be, though. We used to do that for votes on Star Wars Fanon, where I'm the bureaucrat. After we stopped enforcing it, it made no difference. The integrity of the voting process did not change. We should assume good faith and believe that people are voting for the candidates they best believe would be admins, and only concern ourselves with things like sockpuppetry.