I should be moderator, because, well, FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No, seriously, vote for me in November.
I'm actually all for a public vote, although I can see how it could become a popularity contest. However, my experience, as a member of forums/ FB pages/message boards etc, is that the lowly members often feel that the higher-ups go on an ego trip and start considering their opinions as absolute law. To me, that creates a totalitarian (Forum community) state. I haven't been here near long enough to comment on whether that is the case here, however, I feel that transparency and fairness should always win out. That's just a hypothesis though, because there's never actually been any organization which has shown transparency and fairness, in the entire history of the human race - imo.
I'm actually all for a public vote, although I can see how it could become a popularity contest. However, my experience, as a member of forums/ FB pages/message boards etc, is that the lowly members often feel that the higher-ups go on an ego trip and start considering their opinions as absolute law. To me, that creates a totalitarian (Forum community) state. I haven't been here near long enough to comment on whether that is the case here, however, I feel that transparency and fairness should always win out. That's just a hypothesis though, because there's never actually been any organization which has shown transparency and fairness, in the entire history of the human race - imo.