Auto-editor election: highstrung

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@IvanDobsky

So the follow-up to that would be is there an agreed threshold to fail an election? i.e. must have 66% of the vote yes or something?

The election will fail with 51% No votes. Some editors might think 66% or even 75% Yes is a desirable number and cancel the election otherwise.

@IvanDobsky

I can agree how demoralising a debate would be here as it would be visible to the editor, but they would not be able to defend themselves as this part of the forum is AE only.

It’s not needed to defend oneself against voter opinions It’s very much a “if you think there’s something to it, try to learn from it, if not, ignore it” situation. But I agree not everybody is happy with it (some editors seem very open to such feedback though, such as in the other election running now).

Edit: Obviously we are talking about normal comments, such as “I feel this editor is not confident enough with X part of the system yet and I’m not too comfortable giving them autoeditor privileges”, not “This editor sucks and we should ban them instead, the prick!”