Auto-poll is a bad idea Edit

I am not from this wiki, and I certainly don't want to criticize without a good reason, but I think you guys ought to reconsider how you do your voting for Bureaucrat. Having it run the way it is now leaves it open to anyone coming in and voting for a candidate. You - being the users of the Annoying Orange Wiki - should have a bit more control over who becomes your bureaucrat, so having a poll where anyone (anonymous users, users who have never posted on this wiki, etc) can vote seems like a bad idea. To take an example, let's say that one of the bureaucrat candidates wanted to win, so he/she talked to all his/her friends on other wikis they're a part of, to get those people to come here and vote for him/her. If they won, it could be in large part because of people from outside this wiki voting.

Thanks for reading. -- LostInRiverview ^{talk · blog} 17:29, June 24, 2011 (UTC)

I agree 100% with what you're saying. Bureaucrats can be forever, and a poll doesn't justify exactly who's good for the job and not. --BobNewbie ^∞(Talk)∞ 18:10, June 24, 2011 (UTC)

I also agree. Also, anonymous users with dynamic IP ranges are able to vote more than once, meaning that it can be considered as vote stacking. GG (talk) 18:13, June 24, 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for bringing this up - I will discuss with the other administrators to see which will be better. Thanks -

 Bryce  Talk  Contribs  Blog  01:17,6/26/2011 

can you reopen the beuracrat polls. I'd like to be a beuracrat and I qualify to be one.Darkapple 15:42, October 19, 2011 (UTC)