Staff Members: Election by Senior Members and Above

[darnoldy]

Originally Posted by Psionic Vision

Maybe it would be more correct to say that admins would not do that because they are not totally honest.

It would be more-correct to say that they don't do it because, in the long run, communities that try it tend to self-destruct.

As somebody who has been managing online communities since before you were born (the software for the first forum I managed was written in FORTRAN), I have heard the arguement you are making innumerable times. "We (whatever group the person identifies with) are the ones who are important here, without us this community would disappear, we should be in charge, you should do what we want." Its not true. Life doesn't work that way.

--don