Board Thread:Chat Discussion/@comment-4883034-20141027162128/@comment-10950063-20141027163807

The main worry here is that this will become another "natural election." The end product of that was questionable as to whether it did anything or not. What's not as questionable is that a fair number of people were unhappy with it.

An equally big problem is choosing this council. In reality, un-biased and trusted people who know chat should already be mods. So, how do we find the people for this council?

The app thing isn't a bad idea, but I don't know how needed it is. When reviewing apps, we don't consider votes that boil down to "he's cool" or "he's my friend." If someone doesn't have a good reason, it doesn't register. Also, it's good to hear a wide range of opinions. Maybe someone had an encounter with a candidate no one else had or they remember something everyone else forgot.

Mainly, my issue is with the feasibility of finding this council. We already have trouble finding good mods, it's going to be harder to find people we can trust to be an oversight council for those mds.