Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4984687-20150326211251/@comment-4984687-20150326233717

SuperSajuuk wrote:

On another note: the system should change from one of voting in support/oppose for someone to one where you give rationales about the user in a discussion thread in the forums. I've never liked the idea of a user's application being decided on popular vote, it was wrong for a lot of reasons in the past (and why we ended up with so many staff members who didn't do that much to improve the site). Voting varies per topic. For a consensus of a change or addition, people must give their ideas or improvements rather than just saying that they agree with what OP says.

Consensus for demoting a user is different. Unlike changing something, a consensus against demoting a user will just result in the same thing - demotion or they keep their rights. When you suggest changing something, there are multiple ways it can be done unlike a consensus against a user. The same thing happens with staff or MOTM nominations, in the end it will only end to ways. Voting should only occur where there are only two options.

Speaking of MOTM, it should stay the same. The end result is the person either becoming or not becoming MOTM.