Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-26942983-20160116044833

Our current voting system for requests for user rights is biased due to the fact that it only focuses on supports. So 60 supports and 40 absolute opposes would result in a promotion while 59 absolute supports and 41 neutrals wouldn't.

How about another example? If I like Andy better than Betty better than Carl, and my sister has the exact opposite opinion, then under unbiased conditions, our votes should cancel, but it turns out that Andy and Carl would get 1 support and 1 oppose. Under our current system, this is better than the 2 neutrals Betty gets. Bias alert! Clearly, some sort of change is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY!

So I'm suggesting a new voting system: it's called the board account. First of all, we assign values for the votes. Absolute oppose=-0.25, Oppose=0, Neutral-Oppose=0.25, Neutral=0.5, Neutral-Support=0.75, Support=1, and Absolute support=1.25 votes. Now we add everything up and divide it by the total number of votes. If the number obtained is greater than or equal to 0.6, than this will result in a promotion.

If you're going to oppose, please give a solid reason. (Don't say something like "why bother?")  