Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20160106132717/@comment-52.34.228.160-20160110061244

Then if we are agreeing on anything, great! Throw away the other things and agree on this:


 * A user can nominate himself on admin on the thread if he thinks he is ready to become an admin. Users can support or pose. 7/10 = becomes admin.
 * A bureaucrat or admin can nominate a user. He will make the thread.  Users can support or pose. 7/10 = becomes admin.

Throw away the prequisites. As I bring up again Imamadmad probably breaks all of these rules, yet she still qualified to be an admin. We should put emphasis on the contributions of a user, not by edit counts, how long he/she had been here, etc. If we don't need to "look at the prequisites" because they are so easy for users, no need for them. A user can have 100 good edits and is much better off, a different user can 47,000-48,000 fluffy edits and is not, so who should be the admin? I shorten down my point of view of nomination to two bullet points. Prequisites make the whole thing complicated.

Maybe I'm a dolt. So be it. But I have my opinions and this is my standpoint, even if it is different from everyone else's. In general, we know who are great users who could be administrators, so we sort each other out without a system. The system is holding us back. Cat didn't need to go through all of that because we were pretty sure she was capable.

Also, totally following rules is not what an admin is. This pulls an "admin" back. An admin rank is the capability of gaining the respect of the community with each prudent decision he or she makes, being friendly and corporation with many users here, gaining the trust of everyone. And what exactly makes these "administrative work" that you mention? Managing polls, chat, and editing aren't administrative duties. Being an administrator here means you love being here and you wish the best. Hence this shouldn't be work that you are doing.

I'm not calling the administrator nomination system of those wikis ridiculous. It's the urgent need for one of these systems that some don't support, and the need to combine the three that is. And I have to note that we are not them. We don't need a system similar to theirs. Lefty nominated us because we are able to make to make our own decisions.

-Primetime