Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5619531-20140501174336/@comment-5619531-20140501234131

ImGonnaBeThatGuy wrote: I think the fact that applications are not a vote needs to be made more obvious. I was working on a guide to the application process earlier. I don't know if I'll finish it, that was mostly to point that out. I didn't know that when I applied for rollback.

Promotion should only be handled by a 'crat. We have a good number of admins. If everyone tries to go around handing out deputy badges, then things are going to go wrong.

Agreed on the point that there's needs to be open and closed periods for chat mod apps. We have so many right now and, to be honest, a lot of chat mods end up creating drama themselves. We don't need more chat mods, we need better chat mods. Besides, we're reaching a point where it feels like half of chat is going to have mod powers. Yeah. I do agree on the chat moderator stuff, though. Although it wasn't that worse at the beginning of the year, but we don't really want to keep it open indefinitely because that can still occur. That's one of the reason why I actually like the new prerequisites for chat moderator because it stops that shit from happening again.

As for the capacity of mods, towards my opinion, they're just shit. At least the vast majority have started shit between the regular users, rather than doing their own jobs. A chat mod isn't supposed to start shit. Maria almost demoted all of the moderators because of that situation, and I actually was rooting for her (that's how bad the moderators are during that time, and I do wish that would occur).

Like I said from the above, some admins are worthy to assume the roles of bureaucrats (you and Callie are probably the only examples of the admins who assume much of a bureaucratic right, without having the right). I'm not stopping any admin to make any changes to this if they feel that it is necessary, or closing it down if needed to. I would be perfectly fine if either or happening. There is no SNO template, it's just a proposal of a rule if it would be needed or not. I wrote this because there was drama occurring that time, and I just got irritated with it. So that's why I wrote this.