Board Thread:The Seven Seas Court/@comment-3112181-20140206040123

The recent debacle surrounding Bobby Moon's promotion request in which several petty and irrelevant arguments pursued is the result of unnecessary users commenting on this request. I am requesting the implacement of a new rule that states that if you are not a user of rank (admin, rollback, chat mod), you may not comment on SSC rule/promotion/demotion requests. My reasoning follows.

- The SSC was made for administrators and other users of ranks to vote on preliminary decisions, proclaiming whether a request would be able to proceed to a public blog.

- The SSC is not a location for users without rank to post their opinions on a given matter; that is what a blog is for.

- Already, only users of rank may vote on the SSC, whilst users without rank may not. What, then, is the purpose of allowing users without rank to actively lobby on a request if they cannot vote?

- Many users without rank who disagree with votes submitted have the tendency to argue on the thread, ruining the purpose and resulting in drama.

- If a request on the SSC passes, it will be moved to a blog where users without rank may then vote and state their opinions; therefore, users without rank would not be deprived of any rights.

Of course, normal users may still submit requests on the SSC, but only that user can actively take part in discussions; this is not meant to be a town hall meeting and having every user state their opinion results in disarray and unneeded theatrics.

Thank you for considering this request.

Kind regards,

Jeremiah Garland 