Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24349111-20140611203956/@comment-24849226-20140612173913

This is really interesting, but I feel like I should provide some kind of counter-argument to the very clear positive reinforcement following on from the original poster.

As has been pointed out, it would be extremely difficult to determine and qualify these kinds of situations, and it's as easy as it could possibly be to offer a reason off the top of your head, when in reality, you have other motives. Also, behavior outside of this wiki isn't necessarily a moot point. Sure, the example offered by the OP is subtle and, to an extent,a bit daft, judging someone because they don't like their 'country' in another roleplaying environment. But, equally, this can't be labelled to an entire swathe of decision-making, and putting a large section of people's opinions under the banner of 'worthless'. If someone had been sending you rude, inappropriate messages on another site, and you both existed on this wiki, is that an invalid reason to vote against them? What if the same thing occurs internally on chat? Are these two totally different scenarios? No.

What I'm trying to say is (in a roundabout, overlong kind of way) that it's impossible to make such a broad statement, that basically says

'If a person is a terrible troll to everyone they know outside of this wiki, and this is known by several members, but lovely to several high-level moderators inside the wiki, they deserve no bias'.

Sorry to overanalyse, and I agree with the core point and example, but the proposal, in my opinion, is too wide.