On 29/02/2008, Nicolas Montes placebo.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Just one question though, when did the percentage for RfB become 90% or has it always been that way? It seems that if we lowered the bar a little, we would get more and sooner or later a lot more f these opposes would pop up along with essays about who being a crat is "no big deal".
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The 90% is silly... how can consensus be two different percentages? It can't be both a vote and consensus at the same time. People either need to admit it's basically a vote, with different requirements for RfAs and RfBs, or change it so it's the same for both. You can't have both a voting % AND consensus.
An interesting factoid: I work on three other wikis as well as English Wikipedia, and they all keep the same % for bureaucrats. I don't know why English Wikipedia is different. As I said, it's very silly, when all they do is the job of a calculator (and when they don't... guess what, it causes controversy!)