Ilya N. wrote:
The problem, as I've explained before, is there may
be one of the following
situations:
- Vote tally is (20/0/0) and someone raises a very valid concern that
may make the person unsuitable for adminship.
- Someone raises a concern, vote tally becomes (0/20/0), and then it
turns out it was a sockpuppet doing it.
We want people to only vote once they've gotten the whole picture after
discussion.
As an admin, I'd perfer having this instead of relying on a handful of
encounters with said user, or having to research 20 users in-depth. As a
bureaucrat, it makes it easier to tell whether or not to promote in
borderline cases.
Finally, I don't think we should use voting as the main medium for
discussion.
Sometimes a bureaucrat has to be willing to override a majority vote.
Most of the time this won't happen. Bureaucrats do not yet have the
power to de-sysop, though it would be handy in borderline cases to have
a sort of probation system where if the new admin soon becomes a problem
the status could be withdrawn without a fuss. On Wiktionary I do become
extra careful before I promote someone, and if I go against the majority
I better have good reasons for doing that.
Ec