Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9026519-20160406021002/@comment-9026519-20160406043311

Jackboog21 wrote: Isn't that all a democracy is, here and IRL? It's a popularity contest.

Donald Trump is one of the worst candidates for the US, but he's still going strong. He's popular, that's how he's doing so well.

Democracy is voting for who you want to vote for, even if they're a bad choice. That's what we're doing and there aren't many other options.

However, demotions I do think might need to be done in a different manner.

I suggest perhaps we handle them with staff only votes. Rollbacks, admins, mini-admins, etc could all vote on whether or not to demote someone. This would prevent large amounts of people from voting just because their friend voted or because they like the person. Two things. First of all, yes, he may be the worst candidate, but at least people know a little bit about what he's trying to do. As I said in this forum, there are people voting w/o reading any of the content. Second off, I don't even think there should be a vote for demotions when it comes to breaking our rules. As I said in my other forum, we have set procedures in the rules on how we deal with it. If we're not even going to follow those set rules, then what other rules should we allow to be broken?