Thread:TopsyKretts3/@comment-4252375-20131027211210/@comment-2052424-20131027220331

When I make a poll, or decide which community suggestion to use, a large factor of that decision is based on the inclusivity of the question. Is it a question that most of ours users will have an adequate understanding of to answer? Is it a question which most of our users will have the information to answer? The line about suggestions needing to be related to Combat Arms is attempting to fill that requirement, to get people to only suggest questions which an adequate majority of people would be able to answer. Since near everyone who visits the Combat Arms Wiki plays, or is interested in, Combat Arms, it fills that requirement.

There are also times when a poll is made about the Wiki itself, such as a question about the quality of the polls over the past month, and a question relating to the new theme of the Wiki. Again, these were things which most people could answer. Most of the people who vote in the polls are the same pool of people. Just being on the wiki you'll see it's theme.

So, do is there a problem with suggesting polls that have to do with the Wiki itself? Not as long as they fill the inclusivity requirement.

The problem with a poll asking whether or not the Wiki needs more mods is that the good majority of voters don't use the Wiki extremely actively. There are, on average, between 150 and 200 votes on a poll, with the highest recent number being 589, yet there are only around 15-20 active editors. The rest simply read the wiki, use it for gathering information, animations, or statistics and guides. A very large margin of voters wouldn't have the experience of information to know whether or not more moderators are needed.

So, to reiterate: there is no problem with suggesting a poll related to the Wiki, but I don't see myself picking that specific poll as a suggestion. Most voters simply wouldn't have the experience to make an informed vote on the matter.

However, that doesn't mean that the question has to be put to waste. Rather than suggestion it to be used as a poll, put out to the general public, you could instead put it out as a proposition. In fact, I would say that your current proposition, asking to be a moderator, in a way IS asking whether or not there should be more mods. If most of our active editors do not believe that there are enough mods, then they would be more than glad to elect you to the position.