Thread:ComradeJ/@comment-2052424-20140511135527/@comment-3255675-20140513001851

TopsyKretts3 wrote:

No, Comrade, it's not. Your idea of a serious issue seems to be any problem on any scale. Two people missed the deadline. That is not a serious issue. A Wikia system error is a serious problem. It's the point of a deadline to limit votes to a certain period, to when they would be relevant. If we're just going to allow any votes from any time then deadlines would be useless. Anytime a proposition didn't get enough votes, its maker would just extend it to whenever they thought they could get enough votes, and they'd keep extending it, because, "Hey, Comrade did it! It's my proposition I'll do whatever I want!"

You don't extend the deadline just because you missed a few votes you could have had, you extend it if something affects everybody's, or the majority of user's, abilities to vote. Not tardiness, not a missed flight, but a large and serious problem. Not a personal problem that only affects one person, but a large scale problem that affects a big number of potential voters. Your definition and interpretation may be different from my definition and interpretation. I'm not going to argue anymore.