User:Amarkov/thoughts/RfA

RfA is broken.

"Broken" doesn't mean it's terrible. It isn't. It's healthy enough to serve us well. But it has problems.

Mostly, my problem is with the "discussion" part. We always see it thrown around. "Wikipedia is not a democracy, vote counting doesn't matter". But in RfA, voting seems to be what is done. The difference between 80% support and 78% support is viewed by many to be sufficent enough to necessitate much more thought on the part of the bureaucrat. And people are regularly opposed for debating people's opposes, or even worse, for OTHER people doing so. In a true discussion, debating something should be welcome, not just tolerated to an extent.