Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4787430-20140212012825/@comment-4787430-20140214181033

Even if nominations are by a member of staff, everyone can vote. Admins are not in charge of all votes. If they were then there would be no point to voting or having nominations at all. Voting is how we come to a consensus, and is done by anyone, not just admins. If a conseneus is too close to call, then no changes are made. If a conseneus heavily outweighs another, then it either passes (majority support) or doesn't pass (majority oppose).

I would hope that no one would nominate or vote against someone just because they didn't like them. Nominating and voting for someone should always be based on the user's contributions and their overall conduct on the wiki. That's not to say that those that don't met the requirements right now, can never be nominated again, as people can change if they want to. I mentioned this before.

It's not only staff members that have voted in support of this change, and right now the support votes outweigh the oppose votes. That is what will determine if it passes or not.

As for it being easy for staff to get away with stuff because they are high up, that's just an outright prejudgement. You might see that from staff on other wikis, but it is totally not acceptable for any staff member to put themselves in a higher than thou position here on this wiki.