User blog comment:Master Hydraffe/ADMIN APPLICATIONS 2017 v2/@comment-8846246-20170901234701/@comment-8846246-20170903192414

@JD4 I never once "barged an order". I only gave my opinion on this system and that I'll make a suggestion. And I never said every wiki has to have the same system, but every wiki should have a fair system.

@Master

"no one is forced to accept the position if they feel like they are not able to meet the commitments. Minifigureman11 stepped down, and I think that we respected his decision."

Yes, that's true. But, several people voted for him, thus wasted their votes. That is not a good system, especially since they never even got a chance to re-vote. That is not fair.

"At this stage, it's a popularity contest, but at least the community gets to decide their fate. If we switch to a system where only a limited number of people [let's say the existing admins] get a say in who joins the admin panel, then there's no fairness and we're open to criticism for favoritism or some stuff like that, and that's not productive."

Who was suggesting that?...Did you get that from my comment? I never said "let's only have a few vote". I stated the fact only a few do vote with this current system. My comment actually had none of my future suggestions in it, only what doesn't work about this system.

"Perhaps what you want is using the method for selecting rollbacks/chat mods for selecting admins as well (making forum threads etc.), but in the end the community will have to vote and we go back to the popularity contest argument again."

That would be a lot fairer, though. People would actually know who wants the position and not just vote for people they think want the position. And people would be more engaged to vote if they kept getting notifications, and not just 1 linking to a blog. That takes out multiple birds with 1 stone.