Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-26520884-20160709170433

Remember the voting to create a voting rules page? Guess what, it wasn't been created yet! But before creating we need to make the rules, and this is something that needs a revision. Basically I'm listing all the points that are going to appear on the page and some that I think that need a change. Probably I forgot some points. If you know any please tell it on the comments.

Reasons for non-promotion threads
The first thing I want to adress. One day TheHandsomePlant sent me a message telling that supporting votes (not counting on promotions) doesn't need a reason to be accepted, after I disqualified a bunch of them on two threads. That is stupid. Most of the time supporting a thread means applying a new change to the wiki, so it seems obvious to me that it should bring a reason with it. The same with oppose.

So the choices are:

Disqualifying
I sincerely don't know if there is any specific rule for this, but sometimes I read that you need to be a discussion mod to disqualify a vote. I just need to make this clear, as there is no thing to do when a non-staff user disqualifies a vote.

Promotion Templates
As usual, there are very people who don't use the promotions templates and get their votes disqualified. But if the user opinion is good and well written, should it be disqualified? Also, another injustice, opposes don't need to use the promotion template.

To end this, recently there was another thread to support making a Support - Neutral promotion template. The opinion changes templates don't have yet promotion versions of it, but it has to be created soon due to the voting thread. Should it also be mandatory to use the alternate versions of those or any version is acceptable?

Things that are going to be put on the voting rules page that don't need discussion

 * Percentage of supporting votes (recently discussed)
 * Requirements in order to vote (They are fine)
 * Being able to vote without using templates (recently discussed)
 * Per usage (discussed some time ago)
 * That staff votes counts the same as regular users votes (discussed a long time ago due to a bureaucreat vote counted as three regular votes.)
 * Being able to close the thread earlier when there is no replies for some time, being a Just Do It reason or it is a one sided vote. 