Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150608231255/@comment-34115-20150609100546

SuperSajuuk wrote: I find that an interesting stance, considering I asked you about it before and you suggested it would be more relevant if he didn't return after a year.

When was this? I've never argued in favour of expiring sysop rights. Are you talking about the time you overreacted that time WindStar was busy and wasn't as active? If not, than anything I said that you might have misread was probably me just trying to get you to stop pestering me about it.

SuperSajuuk wrote: Also, it's interesting you think we don't cherry pick Wikipedia policies, when it's happened several times in the past without any issue (usually to oppose some suggestion or discussion made by a user on the wiki). I said we do cherry pick Wikipedia policies. Explicit on the "cherry pick". As in here and there we use a small handful of Wikipedia policies as either a base or a guide full of good rationales. We don't blanket rely on Wikipedia as the base for all our policies. And every now and then when a user pops up suggesting something that doesn't fit the wiki I may quote a Wikipedia policy or essay not because "it's Wikipedia!!!" (that would be an authority fallacy), but because the Wikipedia policy has good relevant rationales or it embodies the same wiki way or wiki spirit we follow. eg: Wikipedia's "Wikipedia is not a democracy" is a good way to get some people to understand that consensus is not a voting system and consensus based wikis like ours are not democracies or based on majority rule.