Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-11333115-20131103161021/@comment-4620507-20131105065757

I'd support IF this was reversed. More community involvement translates into a greater say the community has in key decisions such as this. If the community would nominate canidates and vote on them to narrow it down, current mods and admins can review these probably relatively unknown users and pick one that would make a suitable mod. If mods and admins nominated, as other users have pointed out, there is the issue of favoritism. I'm not accusing any mods or admins of doing that, since, as far as I know, I have seen no cases that stand out, but it's always a possibility, and it's going to take quite a bit of effort to carefully look at random, unknown users in hopes of choosing one suitable canidate all for the sake of not picking from close groups of friends with whom you're familiar of. Leave the searching for canidates to the community. Let the admins and mods do the searching for talent.

Currently, I am on this subject, as no matter what, we'll probably have a steady flow of qualified admins and mods flowing into the wiki.