On 7/18/07, Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
Perhaps a poll along the lines of "I feel like I'm a member of the community, but nevertheless was not allowed to vote" would be useful?
Interesting, I personally think however this kind of question is better to solve based on intersubjective opinions rather than self-estimations of each individual (they should be enable to vote vs I should be able to vote)
As long as minimum subjective line of our community member's involvement sense matter, I think we don't need a new poll. Allow anons to vote. Period. Since 2005 the lowest claimed threshould I have ever seen claimed came from unregistered users. I don't mean we should do that, I rather would like to say self-satisfaction might not be a good measure to decide threshold. I personally find it unwelcome so we need another measure, not subjective opinions of each individuals if he deserves voting eligibility.
Also I remember a user who claimed 400 edits was too high requirement and contradict with his or her self-estimation of involvement (he or she said to make one or two edits per day and believed for the sake of constant commitment he or she deserved voting eligibility). Unexpected error around edit count threshold revealed us if we made the threshold 200 instead of 400, plus 30,000 accounts would have got the right to vote. (Note: it shouldn't be equal to 30,000 people, it will include many secondary accounts here and there: Enwiki, Commons, meta or sister project where you are inactive ......) .
As part of Election committee, I personally think the requirements of this year was reasonable, but review is always welcome, specially based on census, poll or whatever.