On 6/15/06, Sue Reed sreed1234@yahoo.com wrote:
The biggest problem that I see with the RfA process is that you have a group of folks (and it's a fairly large group) who vote on nearly every RfA. Unless they are spending all of their wiki time researching admins, which I think is silly, they have to come up with some fairly objective standards to measure folks against. It could
"Objective" is a nice way of putting it. "Superficial", "arbitrary" or "meaningless" come to mind as well. Again, the problem is not that objective measures exist. It's that each user comes up with his own, without consulting with anyone else over whether or not they're actually meaningful or have any value.
So, instead of "User X is a bit of a dweeb, I've seen him around, and he only ever makes stupid comments" we have the "objective" comment of "User X failed my automatic dweebatron2000() measurement, hence voting no."
Steve