Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5392675-20170913110255/@comment-5392675-20170913163459

I apologise for mixing up your comments with those of Someone10000's.

Nonetheless, I do not think there is anything wrong with allowing two qualified, deserving users to get moderator position. First of all, they had to be nominated by the community to get here in the first place.

Second of all, I think CAMERA's point of view is logically sound and having two moderators to help in the event of a crisis is not bad. Obviously you're not arguing this, but rather the fact that we didn't first inform the community, and that they didn't have a choice.

Not everything has to involve the community, especially a decision involving the safety of the Wiki. If something goes wrong, we will take the relevant action to rectify the issue. However, the admins believe that this is for the best at this point in time. (If the admins would like to rediscuss this issue, please reply to the email thread I sent out.)

Would it have been better to have the community decide? I don't think it would have made much of an impact - if we had held a moderator poll, we'll still get 2 (or whatever number) moderators anyway, except we'll spend more time doing it and we won't get to see the moderators do a trial (if we gave them the trial as well, it would once again take even more time).

So that's my take on it. Honestly, go ahead and make your blog. It's your choice, but from my point of view, I do not see anything wrong beyond the application process, and also I'm too tired at this point in time to continue typing coherently.