Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-1764483-20160131204339

Project:Rules: "Major changes, such as changing the wiki theme or policies, each bureaucrat and admin vote gets three points, each content moderator, discussion moderator, chat moderator, and rollback gets two points, everyone with at least 25 mainspace edits gets one point."

Hmm, so, previously, I argued for the same cause. Why am I bringing this up again? Well...
 * These positions are merely extra buttons. Yes, this does inevitably come with the powers at hand, but it's not worth weighting votes.
 * No one uses this rule, so what's the point of it if no one's going to enforce or use it?
 * Using the rule would complicate matters to an uncomfortable degree. In general, counting votes and then weighting them based on staff positions would be a frucking nightmare.
 * Now that the content moderator position exists and I've been essentially trying to reflect these changes, the vote system becomes a mess. It is clear that bureaucrats and sysops get 3 votes, moderators and rollbacks 2 votes, and others 1 vote. However, there is also the possibility of it being switched around to something like "crats 5, sysops 4, discussion/content mods 3, chat mods/rollbacks 2, others 1", or some other combination depending on what happens here.
 * It cripples the power of general users. What say a user with no additional powers (Cavia porcellus and 1Zulu come to mind) makes a really good argument, but it gets devalued because actual staff members lack the critical thought necessary to properly vote. Yes, this may not be an issue since we would ordinarily trust staff members, but for the record, many a staff member have eventually shown their true colors, forcing us to kick them out of the position. As such, it's too much to risk.

I did remove this a while back simply because no one was using it, going by what happened with chat spoilers, but Someone456 reinstated this today. He also ended my original voucher for this very cause, supposedly because he felt it was right for the wiki, but I think those thousands of edits, his power, and the positive attention he's received all got to his head, therefore making his opinion the end-all and be-all.

'''Since I know you're reading this, Someone456, let me tell you something: do not close the vote. This needs to be discussed validly.'''
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