User:Jaigoda/Policy

There's been a lot of discussion about voting policy recently lately, especially what is constituted as valid for downvoting a build. Toraen's de facto voting policy was brought up multiple times as a tool for argument, but was mostly shrugged off by its opposers as the page is simply Toraen's observations of the general concensus towards voting, and by no means actual policy. Thus, there's been a bunch of discussion back and forth where one side is arguing for something that contradicts Toraen's guide and the other side is shouting that said arguers should /uninstall because they aren't following this fake law. Unsurprisingly, the discussions haven't really yielded much results.

I personally feel that the wiki would be a lot better off by coming to an actual concensus and pushing it to become policy. Considering admins are (justifiably) not getting involved in the validity of votes, I think it would help the community a lot to have more specific rules on what constitutes a valid vote. As it is now, people can throw together a vote (1-1 or 5-5) based on half-truths and bad logic and defend it easily without having to worry about its removal. If we are more detailed in what's okay and what's not, then there won't be nearly as many massive walls of text going back and forth over some stupid detail because no one can point to PvX:VETTING and be like, "that's against (or allowed by) the rules." Basically, if we're supposed to be self-sustaining, it would help to have at least some tools at our disposal so it's not total anarchy.

Of course, this all depends on people actually being able to agree on the same ideas as well as being willing to put it down into policy. Knowing PvX, this is rather wishful thinking. However, I think that it's worth at least attempting, as it would undoubtedly save the wiki from a lot of drama in the future.