On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 gjzilla@gmail.com wrote:
The reason that they don't discount useless support votes is because the main purpose of RfA is to see whether we trust the user in question with the tools. The default option is "support", but you must have a good reason to oppose.
Does every opponent have to have a *different* good reason?
If not, then an "oppose" without details could easily mean "I agree with the reasons other people have given" and should be legitimate.
(And I think much of the ill feeling here is the knowledge that a RfA for anyone else would not be treated this way.)