User:Frostly/CAVE: My RfA criteria

My process for !voting at RfA can be summarized as "CAVE":

What's not included
Specifically, I don't:


 * ask questions. RfA is stressful enough, and a quick look at someone's contributions is enough to judge character. Getting adminship should not be a pop quiz.
 * judge off-wiki activity.
 * comb through your contributions in whole and find that one edit from 2015 where you did something mildly controversial and misinterpret and misquote from it, starting a 2kb heated discussion that quickly trails off-topic until it is removed by a bureaucrat and archived to the talk page. :)

On naming
I chose CAVE as an acronym because I feel it represents RfA: a big cave that's difficult to navigate and often not transparent. Going through RfA is hard, it's emotionally and time expensive, and lots of social norms surrounding it aren't well-documented.

Closing
I'll sound like a broken record, but RfA is a taxing process. Every candidate should be commended for stepping up for the task any !vote expressing otherwise risks harm to an essential process. I hope that my criteria reflects my immense admiration for any editor running.

In closing, I'm just one !voter among hundreds don't take what one particular person says too seriously. I'm also not an administrator myself, so take my words with a grain of salt.

It's my sincere wish that this example criteria will encourage more community members, especially newer ones, to participate, and qualified candidates to run through the gauntlet process, by making my decision-making more transparent. If it did, I'm always available for a chat, or an email to rant to!

Best of luck!

Appendix
You can see my !voting history here. Thanks to for the tool!