Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-25857155-20150703155424/@comment-4403232-20150703194958

LiveandSound wrote: What if you and the others just make a poll?

"Do you think this user deserves to be nominated?"

>Yes (9)

>No (4)

>I don't care (2)

Unfortunately polls have MANY flaws that make them unsuitable to take action from. It is very easy to take several sockpuppet accounts and/or IPs and mass-spam the poll (even logging out of your account offers you a second vote usually). It is not documented who voted for what, and does not offer a place to say WHY you voted that way. The polls can be easily abused and it is impossible to ensure they remain fair.

Jayhart wrote: Very good points, Grif. Live, that would work, but would not allow for reasoning to be posted along with it.

What about a blog entry, then? Have one comment started for Oppose, and one for Support.

If we do blogs, there would be no organization to the votes, as they'd be all over the place, making it harder for users to find them. If a nomination was made, got a single support/oppose and then got buried in the Wiki Activity, you'd have no reason to know it exists, or where to find it. Having the votes always in the same place at least allows for the worst-case scenario of "I'll check this page/forum once a week".