Admin Announcement: Cannon is an official admin

[n00bl3t]

I don't agree with this at all.
I don't think it's really any of our business.
It's not a democracy. It's not an open Community (even though anyone can join).
Nor is it an Open adminship.
It's a privately run server.
Too many people think they have a say on what the admins do here, and who should be voted
and how the admins should do things.

In all honesty? If they get an admin outside that we've never heard of, that would be just as fine
(possibly better than from someone here since they would be an unknown, and not known in the way that "everybody judges" here).

I mean seriously...
Why the hell does anyone think their opinion matters around here, to who is in an admin roll?

The Administration wishes to appoint Administrators that are, something to aspire to, for lack of better descriptions. Despite all the exaggeration of power of the Administration, they cannot be everywhere at once, nor can they see everything. In order to appoint an Administrator which meets certain prerequisites, the opinion of the community is needed, in order to fully describe the person being nominated.

It is not intended as popularity contest so far as "no, I do not like you because you pirate me too much", but it is intended as a "they are rather hot-headed, and I do not believe they can handle the pressure of the job" sort of input.

As far as voting, or giving an opinion, I know, first-hand, that popularity is not an indication of quality, and I know that the people who cast the votes do not decide the election results, the people who count the votes do.

Hence, as far as everything goes, when the Administration make the final decision anyway, there is no harm in making a voting thread as it allows the airing of grievances and scrutinises the individual to see whether they are fit for the job, far better than a simple Administration examination. The process is not perfect, but it makes the community feel more involved with the community's direction.

A community which is not involved in choosing it's direction will become disinterested.

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Anything I say is not intended as offensive, and to try and deliberately misinterpret it as such would be an attempt at trolling via misrepresentation.

It's not a conspiracy, it's localised bias. They're not intelligent enough to form a conspiracy.