[WikiEN-l] No big deal?

Thu Jun 15 12:27:36 UTC 2006

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 10:45:23AM +0100, geni wrote:
> On 6/15/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Bad reasons I've seen for voting against:
> >* Didn't have email set (no one had told him to)
> 
> No but it is generaly considered polite to do so.
> 
> >* Had a web link in signature (no one had told him not to)
> 
> That would generaly be considered to be one of those things you should
> just know.
> 
> >* Has strong opinions on userboxes
> 
> After Cyde it is understandable that people are going to be a little
> twitchy about that one.
> 
> >* Hasn't done anything stupid
> 
> Pretty good reason in fact. Admin powers should go to as many users as
> we can trust with them. The ability to avoid doing stupid things is
> something I like to se in admins.
> 
> 
> >I've also suggested that one or two people should take it upon
> >themselves to really study the candidate over several days, going
> >through their entire history and producing a short report, which other
> >people can base their votes on. Rather than the current system where
> >each person independently supposedly checks the history, and probably
> >votes based on the first 3 edits they see.
> >
> >Steve
> 
> Or you could encourage people to use my system of only voteing for
> people they already know about.

Exactly. That is what I do. Who are these people who chase through every
nominees contributions when they do not know them?

> 
> -- 
> geni
> 
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