09-18-2018, 07:49 AMRomanesEuntDomus Wrote: Why would we want blind voting anyway? I want to know who I am voting for as I'd rather judge the person and their resumee on this site as a whole than just their ability to write a good application.

and that's great for the ~10 people who are willing to do that, but the voting in the past was skewed heavily towards a popularity contest. No offense to @formx cause I like him, but there's no fuckin way he got into HO based on merit the first time.

Voting is a nice idea, cause it gives us that sense of democracy, but the truth is the vast majority of people don't take democracy seriously (just look at NA politics in general). The other truth that people here don't seem to be able to process is that this is a PRIVATE website that governs itself. You don't have free speech, you don't have rights, you don't have jack shit. This site runs how it wants, and if the owners make a decision, we the users don't really have a say in it. I've seen a TON of people here acting like they are entitled to some say in how this place is run, but that simply is not the case, and trying to accommodate the opinions of every user here is impossible. That's why we need the owners at the top, then commissioners, then HO... we need a chain of command to make tough decisions for the site to run smoothly, and some people will always be upset about every decision.