Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9026519-20160406021002

This is another topic that needs to be brought up. Again, this is not a vote, but a discussion. If you've actually read this, you've been enlightened. Congratulations. If not, you'll look like a fool when you vote.

So anyways, this wiki has always been a pretty biased place (which is mentioned on my previous forum, found here when it applies to who we ban) but this one applies to voting. Unfortunately, it's been scientifically proven that people can be swayed by the simplist of things, such as believing they are of more importance when given a heavier clipboard. This pretty much trashes the theory of democracy scientifically, but alas, that's not what I'm going to talk about today.

Anyways, the bias on this wiki is getting out of hand, not only when it comes to banning and enforcing the rules, but also when it comes to voting. We go through a lot of hassle because of peoples' bias vote (such as dealing w/ bad staff members and crappy rules that sound good to some).

Of course there will bias everywhere, but it's getting to the point where you vote w/o actually reading the discussion or fourm. For example, you're friends with person A and they run for admin. Even if they're not the right person and it's been obviously pointed out in the discussion, you vote support anyways (same goes for the opposite). I don't think that's really "democracy" as it's getting to the point someone can win adminship just by being "cool" and "popular". Now, I'm not against slgihtly letting your bias sway your vote, but when it's obviously the wrong choice, many of you don't care. You might say it's not the truth, but in reality it is.

Another issue stems from the people who only read the title. These people are probably more of a joke than those who are bias because they vote without reading anything but the title if that (as I'm sure at least a few people simply see who made the post and make their decision based upon this). But, if you're not going to even read the content of what's being said, then you can't run anything near an effective democracy, if you can even run it. If you want a recent example of this, look here (username has been taken off to prevent "harassment"). Hell, this might also be the reason why we have people who can't vote, voting even though we post the "check if you can vote" link.

Altogether, I believe, as of now, we should firgure out a way to at least prevent some of this biased and ingnorant voting.

Again, this is a forum for discussing. If it were for voting, it would be on the suggestion board. 