Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-17897872-20150812004159

S'up guys? This is Primetime coming to you with...a...blog post.

Based on the few responses I got, this is what I have so far regarding the other subjects:


 * 1) I'll start the staff description (a very messy one indeed), and users can build on from there.
 * 2) I'll hide as many trivial categories as I can find. Please hide more if I miss some.
 * 3) Difficulty levels have hit around a 50/50 for both. They will stay as they are.

Well, the main reason I'm writing this: I've been really disappointed in most of you guys recently. You guys obviously have seen the highlight. I addressed the administration highlight because many of you guys have been complaining to me on PM (or main) or on the forums (or elsewhere) of how this method of nominating new members has been super tedious. And so I spent a lot of my time writing a highlight to try to alter it, and then no one responds. It feels that everyone here can complain and complain, but then no one really has the guts to suggest new ideas in order to change this when an opportunity arises.

So to spark this idea again, I follow my highlight and propose a change to the administrator nomination system from Wildoneshelper's beta test. Please show with the stance templates what you think. If you oppose, what should be changed?

Here we go!

 * There will be two ways to earn adminship, spontaneous combustion promotion and administrative promotion.
 * Before, all sockpuppet votes do not count. All votes from that user will be disqualified.
 * If there are a majority of supports, this nomination method will replace the original one AFTER Catinthedark and 3litecandycrusher are promoted (if they get promoted).

Spontaneous promotion

 * A bureaucrat can promote a user instantly to a rollback, chat moderator, or moderator when he feels that the user has a potential to become one. This would be just like how it was before the new system.
 * There are no prerequisites; bureaucrats will simply promote users when they are ready.
 * A bureaucrat can promote a user to an administrator if at least one other bureaucrat supports. This could be done via message walls.
 * Again, there are no prerequisites; bureaucrats will simply promote users when the criterion is met.
 * If a bureaucrat wants to promote another bureaucrat, both bureaucrats must support and 90% of others must support in a blog post before the user is promoted to bureaucrat.
 * Again, there are no prerequisites; bureaucrats will simply promote users when the above criteria are met.
 * If a user messages a bureaucrat if s/he can be promoted, the answer is a plain no, although the bureaucrat can look more into the user's contributions afterwards and promote the user later or start the above options.

Administrative promotion

 * If an administrator thinks that a user should become a rollback, chat moderator, or moderator, message a bureaucrat.
 * If the bureaucrat supports, the user will be promoted.
 * If the bureaucrat opposes, the admin can message another bureaucrat.
 * If the second bureaucrat supports, the user will be promoted.
 * If the second bureaucrat opposes, the user will not be promoted regardless what the third bureaucrat says.
 * If an administrator thinks that a user should become an administrator, the administrator will write a blog post on why the user should become one. A simple, "S/he's good," won't work.
 * The administrator must swear on his/her ranks in the post that the user he/she is trying to promote did not ask for the blog vote, or else the blog post doesn't count. If the admin is caught in a lie, the user will not be promoted, and the admin will lose ALL of his/her ranks.
 * A majority support vote from the users in time and a 2/3 votes from bureaucrats will make the user an admin.
 * If an administrator thinks a user should become a bureaucrat, message a bureaucrat.
 * If the bureaucrat supports, the bureaucrat will start a blog post in which both bureaucrats must support and 90% of others must support in a blog post before the user is promoted to bureaucrat.
 * If the bureaucrat opposes, the user will not be promoted regardless what the second or third bureaucrat says.

Let me know what you think below! 