Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-1251315-20141013163204/@comment-1251315-20141203000743

Before I start, I will state two things: With that said, time for me to make my views known.
 * 1) New World God, your posts in this thread are antagonistic and defensive of your opinion. Considering that you have been here for very little time and the fact that the candidate in question gave you warnings via your talkpage for policy violations, I am more inclined to believe that your vote is based on your dislike for the warnings you received and the candidate in question, rather than actual reasoning, not to mention the fact you seem to believe that WindStar7125 is being discussed for a promotion to sysop.
 * 2) To all users: I have read a lot of negative posting and attacking of opinions. Please take note that posts attacking the candidate or any other user is a violation of the Forum policy and are subject to editing by myself or a sysop for that reason.

I the promotion of WindStar7125 to become a forum operator for the following reason: I'm not one for writing long ass posts, but this needed an important dissemination and explanation for reasoning given by other users.
 * Activity of myself was cited as a reason why WindStar7125 should not be promoted. It's no big secret that I've been editing on the wiki regularly since I became a forum operator. However, my activity in moderating the forums themselves has rapidly decreased, not due to my disinterest in being on the wiki, but due to the fact that I have been extremely busy with real life studying for my degree and demotivation because of all the editing I have been doing on the wiki.
 * WindStar7125 is a very active forum moderator. From what I have read on his talkpage and from viewing his contributions, he has been upholding the forum policy stringently and has been keeping all our forum topics clean and free of useless posts. While highlighting is a minor power and probably best left to someone else (me) to decide if a thread should be highlighted, I feel that WindStar7125's blockchecks are perfectly valid and are his way of ensuring that we keep out unsavoury topics and users from the wiki.
 * He recently requested a block for a user spamming about a pairing discussion and despite a couple of warnings, the user in question still posted the same discussion, so the block was well warranted from my perspective, but Snapper2 instead decided to give WindStar7125 a lecture on appropriate blockchecking when WindStar was doing the right thing. WindStar7125's blockcheck was within standard protocol that I expect of all forum moderators, including that of even regular users for wiki-based blocks.

It's been a few days since this thread was posted. I will give this some time to gather more opinions, before I will dehighlight and close the discussion as a week is more than enough time for everyone to make their thoughts known and will have given Dantman enough time to read all the rationales given for this promotion.