User blog comment:Master Hydraffe/ADMIN APPLICATIONS 2017 v2/@comment-8846246-20170901234701/@comment-5392675-20170904051353

Except those who wanted to be admins were encouraged to make their speeches. Yea, Mikey probably shouldn't have made that blog since he was technically ineligible, but it's not like the users were completely blind as to who wanted to become admin since there were speeches popping up (though obviously more speeches could have been better).

I don't think this system is inherently as awful as you say it is. The admins know what we want, I think the community has a good idea of what they want, and the end-result will be accepted. In the future, maybe we can try out parts of Someone's suggestion, but I think however we put it it's still going to round back to the idea of a popularity contest, or the idea that only a handful of people (i.e. the current admins) have the right to pick the new admin.