User:EVula/admin/RfB notes 2

My personal notes to help me learn the lessons of my second RfB.

Please Note: Feel free to use the talk page to bring up any additional issues you think I should address.

Concerns
Quick summaries to help me zero-in on the areas I need to improve. Personal comments are color coded; red means it's an area I still need to fully address, whereas green is an area that I feel I have either sufficiently addressed or is/will be a non-issue.

Opposers

 * 1) Blnguyen - numerous concerns:
 * We might have a better 'crat candidate than myself someday, and he'd rather save his support for that person.
 * My edits didn't take enough effort. ("the difficulty rate is not high at all")
 * I am "too knockabout" (too many funny edit summaries)
 * My "RfA history is quite pro-IRC"
 * He "didn't see many detailed RfA analyses"
 * 1) *Personal comment - I don't feel that many of the concerns cited have any true bearing on what a 'crat does (and I don't believe "saving" supports for a theoretical future RfB candidate is a valid reason to actively oppose). I'll try to increase my RfA activity for candidates I'm not actually familiar with, but the rest of it strikes me as perfectly valuable contributions to the project, and ones that I don't need to stop making just because I wish to be a 'crat. I'm unsure what the problem with my edit summaries is (too vague a comment). That I am "pro-IRC" in my support is just blatantly wrong (hard to support my IRC buddies, when 99% of the people I talk to there are already admins).

Neutral

 * 1) Anonymous Dissident - Feels we have enough 'crats.
 * 2) *Personal comment - I disagree, but both his and my opinions can change. :)
 * 3) Krator - Pending answers to questions
 * 4) *Personal comment - The Real World conspired against me... plus, once the RfB hit the point of no return, I got a lot less stringent about answering the questions.
 * 5) KnowledgeOfSelf - Neutral from Oppose, originally he opposed because of the possibility of better candidates later down the road, but decided it wasn't a valid reason to oppose.
 * 6) *Personal comment - I'll be an even better candidate by the next time I run, so this will be a non-issue. :)
 * 7) Dekimasu - Had concerns about my "next step" comment
 * 8) *Personal comment - I still consider being a 'crat to be a "next step" in community involvement, but I understand the concern over the phrase.
 * 9) Dan Dassow - Neutral due to lack of personal knowledge of me and concerns about my temperament based on my userpage.
 * 10) *Personal comment - Not sure what on my userpage gave him concerns about my temperament.
 * 11) O - "My hands are tied. I really don't know"
 * 12) *Personal comment - I can offer a knife to until the hands, but outside of that, there's nothing I can do. :)
 * 13) Eluchil404 - Somewhat persuaded by the oppose !votes, but also swayed by my answers to the questions.
 * 14) *Personal comment - Will focus on the oppose !votes

Editors to contact
Editors who opposed my RfB, and are willing to look at my contributions to see if I've fully addressed their concerns.