Thread:4solace/@comment-28519806-20180212203536/@comment-29954643-20180212221728

I want to understand what is being decided here. To only ask this of a single member is not right. Just by placing this here and NOT on MD's wall suggests that this is not an admin decision as I DO NOT believe that it is.

Bonnie, while I respect your opinion and applaud your bringing this to light and pointing out that it needs to be in Open Discussion (not argument), the idea that only the current admins will be allowed to discuss this is not good, but perhaps I have misunderstood Kat's OP.

If the meaning was to have a single voting thread for a vote about a single point. "Whether to add 2 additional admins or a vote for 5 admins" might be OK, but might not yet.

It is important for the community as a whole to understand that there is one current admin that was never voted into her position in the first place. Whether that was OK or not is a point of contention to many of us here in the current wiki community. I do not think that appointing admins is a good idea, and may be at the core of the mistrust that some of us may feel toward some of the admins here. To close down that discussion by a forced vote without open disclosure of that for the current members whether they be 'lurking' (boy do I dislike that term, as I prefer 'reading posts').

Besides, 4Solace is not an admin either. Is she seen as fair and objective? Yes, I believe that is a true statement. But, there are others that would like input on this decision.

Perhaps, there is a third option. Since Kat and MD have been 'vetted' where MD was the clear candidate of choice over Kat, there may only be a need to vet GEL. The timing may seem unfair as she has put herself on LoA, but this has smacked of a pattern of RL problems coming up for her at important junctures here on this wiki. I am not saying that these RL problems were not real or exremely important to her (and they should be), but the timing has been suspect more than once, and to get to avoid atttaining clear community assent a third time is NOT for the best of the wiki but instead for the best of a single member and her friends.

It may very well be clear once this is discussed openly. Thank you - El