Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-5679696-20160822181638/@comment-4975807-20160822190115

This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I wholeheartedly disagree with how you went about this, Killian. How can you make a thread like this when you did not even have a staff discussion with the other admins about asking the community for their opinions about bureaucrat rights? No one said the other admins have to like what you wanted to discuss in the thread, but to not even tell us of your intentions and getting out consent for the open discussion is not respectful at all. This would be like if I suddenly made a thread asking for someone to be promoted on the wiki without having checked in with the other admins about it first.

As for my personal opinion on the thread, I still disagree with its creation because I do not feel the community at large understands what a bureaucrat position is for, aside from having a new wiki title and having more rights on a designated wiki. I feel the deciding factor and discussion of whether Killian should be a bureaucrat should be amongst staff members only, which includes admins, rollbackers, chat mods/image mods/forum mods, etc, because in this case, I do feel personal bias would play a factor in the votes Killian receives in his favor. What I'm getting at is the majority of the community has had largely positive interactions with Killian, however, this is very one sided. His negative behavior should be also considered with the same weight as his positive behavior in the decision of whether he is the right fit for the bureaucrat position, and this is an aspect I do not feel the community is that knowledgable enough about because they haven't seen this side of him. Therefore, I feel a staff members-only discussion about Killian's bureaucrat rights would be more appropriate.