== My opposition to your adminship == 

 I hope you understand (as I've taken pains to make clear) that I have nothing against your personally nor do I wish your adminship taken away. This started as a comment by me to Cecropia that I thought he acted hastily in promoting you (and I was not alone in this opinion) and now it's grown into a larger policy discussion. It's not that I think there was consensus NOT to promote you, it's just that I thought that the significant number of Oppose votes from non-cranks and the narrow margin of passing indicated a lack of consensus to promote you. Personally I would not have promoted you when Cecropia did, but suggested an extension of the voting on account of the narrow margin. Now, you likely would have exceeded the 80% margin comfortably had that been the case, but I think it's better to project a certain degree of propriety. We don't want it to look like individual bureaucrats can conjure up consensus. Now, again, I am NOT saying Cecropia did this. I do not think he did anything inappropriate. However, given the borderline nature of the issue, it's easy for me to see how a different situation could end up abused. Given that there are currently no real procedural safeguards to prevent this, I thought it best to comment in the hopes that we could initiate some sort of standard for these sorts of situations.  

 Anyway, I'm sure you'll be a good admin as I'm certain you're not taking the comments of your fellows lightly. It's not a big deal, to be sure, because if you suddenly went insane, there'd always be RfC. ;) I just wanted to make sure you knew that I bear you no ill will, heck I didn't even "strongly" oppose. )  |