Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4984687-20150326211251/@comment-4544033-20150401183625

I am going to highlight this, give it a day or so for others to voice their concerns.

While I am going to avoid saying yes or no. I want to give my reason why, and I hope you guys can understand.

While I like the idea of people being able to apply for the role, the reason I am not to big on it is because of what I saw it do to a community. We didn't have to many editors to begin with, but the applying for rights got insane to a point I stopped even watching. To be fair, that wiki had little to no restrictions relating to the applying for anything, so we may have it fair better then them.

There needs to be a mix of voting and discussion. We don't need to stretch it out to long and if you are applying for rights you should already be trusted, discussions should be to answer questions and smaller concerns. If people have larger concerns, they are not going to be swayed by talking.

We also need to set up rules for applying. what are the requirements? If it fails, how long before they can try again? If we are doing this, we need to be ready for it to work and make sure we are not going to have any mistakes in promotions.

I will try to stay out of this as much as possible. I have shared my concerns and I will leave it at that. The community needs to decide if the risk is worth it, and what we can do to prevent some of it. Either way, I have faith the community will handle this the way they feel is best.