Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4984687-20150326211251/@comment-1251315-20150326211738

Absolutely totally 100% agreed with all of this. Last year, it made sense to close down nominations for a while, since it was being unnecessarily used by people who didn't really need additional rights. Presently, we have one patroller, 3 sysops and a small number of other mods) and nobody can get made staff member unless another staff member makes the nomination, a slow and detrimental process.

I will absolutely support the change, we shouldn't have to wait for the staff to come to the community, the community should come to the staff. I can think of a handful of users who'd make use of additional rights and simply can't get them for various reasons.