Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-7091122-20170308031719

I see these two reasons get thrown around quite a lot, but I feel like they're kind of unfair. So I'd like to bring them up and why I feel that way.


 * "Running too early": Under the circumstance where it's been under a month, and isn't for a staff position of lesser value (which is an exception nobody mentions), this would make sense. What else would happen is that their run would be disqualified, meaning that in the only situation you could say this and have your vote mean something due to the thread being allowed, you'd basically not take into account that the Wiki itself allows it.
 * In addition, this is one of two of the common arguments towards the infamous "power hungry" reason for opposition, which is already an instant disqualification of your vote. However, in the current state, you can just loophole it by saying this directly. And the other one...
 * "Just met the mainspace requirements/too little edits": Once again, the only way you can say this is is if they already fulfill the requirements for mainspace edits. Keep in mind those are set as a guideline and an example of what your edits should look like before you run. While it's understandable if they run for Admin with 100 edits, it'd also be a disqualified run anyhow; in the long run, it's just not going to make sense in the scenarios you'd be able to use it in, as the only instance where it's valid are invalid runs anyhow.
 * And, in addition, this is the other common argument used for the aforementioned "power hungry" reason to oppose. And you can loophole with this one even easier. Heaven help you if you say both directly; it's as good as a "power hungry" vote that's valid. 