Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24573226-20171007211457/@comment-25936766-20171016135932

I vote...........Against.

The reason being that, on one hand, it's true that Grif's attitude towards leaving is so zig-zagging that it's like a rollercoaster and that in itself is frusfrating, and he probably/likely has given input late in staff discussions due to his Skype-related problems.

His "dangling of the carrot" over the staff can also be a problem if only Bureaucrats can promote other staff from now on. And if he "delayed consensus", even if it was only because others treated his word as absolute, then it's true that not much could've been done even if the ideas were unilateraly good.

On the other hand, Griff is not the only Bureaucrat anymore. Chish is the new Crat, and that means the problems are solved to an extent by the sheer fact that you can choose which road to travel. If you ever felt like Grif's word was absolute and he had the final word on every decision, then you no longer need to feel like that because Chish's word is also available and has equal weight.

If Griff prevented promotion of staff with ridiculously-high standards, well, now Chish also can dangle the carrot. And if she feels someone deserves a promotion, and majority agrees, then Griff can't really "delay/backtrack" this consensus.

And if an idea has nothing wrong with it, but you felt like you needed Griff to give you the green light to carry it out, well, now you don't strictly need him to give you the greenlight, Chish can do it too.

Basically, if you feel like dealing with Griff in decision-making is too frusfrating but needed to be done because "He's the boss, his vote overrules all of ours", even if it wasn't true, then just deal with Chish instead.

At the same time, as has been noted before, ever since Discord was added in, he's been far more available than he was before, which allows Griff to remain helpful, if anything be more helpful due to more activity and availability.

And in an overall sense, it doesn't hurt to have 2 Bureaucrats instead of 1. If anything, it's preferred since if something happens to one of them, we still have the other to carry on. Maybe, if another bureaucrat is added, Griff could be denominated. But at the moment, there's no real need.