Forum:Proposal to close Chat Moderator requests

Please excuse me if I bring this topic up at a completely random time, but this topic has to be discussed.

It appears that, just recently, there has been a couple of requests placed in for users to become a Chat moderator, which is great and all because Chat can always use new chat moderators as it does appear to be growing more active recently, but I believe, among with a fair few users, that the voting rules seem to be flawed. By this, I mean they are outdated and should be updated as they need to be more stricter and stronger.

This is why I am formally proposing for the Requests for Chat Moderator rights page to be closed until this discussion has come to a conclusion and until there is a new voting ruleset in placement. There is a strong reason as to why I believe that the voting rules are flawed; please allow me to emphasise this below.

It seems that some users support nominees due to a strong level of friendship, or on a more personal level, something similar discussed in this thread. This leads me to either think that the user supporting the vote hasn't really thought their support through and doesn't give a good voice of support or the user supporting just supports because they wish for their friend to receive the Chat moderator rights. Now, I understand that some users want their friends to go far on the wiki, you know I mean, they want them to become known wiki-wide or whatever, but it's still not a good reason to vote for them just because of your friendship with that user.

Please discuss this below and feel free to propose any changes to the voting system for Requests for Chat Moderator, whether you use Chat or not, it's up to you. Thank you. Beds (parlare - da leggere ) 18:43, September 8, 2013 (UTC)