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- Jan 21, 2015
More goodness from Wookieepedia. So, the Canon/Legends switchover passed and is in progress now, but not without some drama. Everyone's in agreement it has to happen, when suddenly in comes "Toprawa and Raltiir," one of the site's Bureaucrats, the highest level of admin (basically the same as a regular admin but with the power to appoint and remove other admins). While he doesn't outright say he opposes the move, he does however insist that the consensus must follow the exact letter of the rules, in that it must have forty-five votes from users with more than fifty contributions in the last month before going active. No, there's no agenda here at all. Also note that he says this with the same urgency one might say "Make sure you cut the right wire on that bomb."
So anyway this turns into a big discussion between the admins and they eventually decide to hold a "Mofference," a type of IRC meeting only admins are invited to. At the "Mofference," they decide to go ahead with the move.
Didn't get that? Fifteen or so admins in secret can make the exact same decision it takes three times the amount of regular users to make in public. Yet more evidence lolcows would be abjectly terrifying if they actually ran countries instead of websites.
Also, Toprawa proceded to eliminate the vote of everyone who had less than fifty contributions a month. Do note that one of them is Riffsyphon, co-founder of the site and a former Bureaucrat himself. Even he's powerless here.
So anyway this turns into a big discussion between the admins and they eventually decide to hold a "Mofference," a type of IRC meeting only admins are invited to. At the "Mofference," they decide to go ahead with the move.
Didn't get that? Fifteen or so admins in secret can make the exact same decision it takes three times the amount of regular users to make in public. Yet more evidence lolcows would be abjectly terrifying if they actually ran countries instead of websites.
Also, Toprawa proceded to eliminate the vote of everyone who had less than fifty contributions a month. Do note that one of them is Riffsyphon, co-founder of the site and a former Bureaucrat himself. Even he's powerless here.