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*'''Comment''' My original hope was that discussion would be <u>followed</u> by secret ballot. Sadly there is very little benefit to the system of early discussion. The only benefit I see is we get voters who are entrenched in their positions after early discussion. In the previous system editors would vote, "why not", "yup" and "I thought you were an admin already" but later revelations would sometimes cause voters to abandon their positions. So that previous system was harder on the candidate who gets their early hopes up only to fail later. My gripe has always been with the unofficial steering committees fussing, striking etc. and a secret ballot is the only fix for that malady. [[User:Lightburst|Lightburst]] ([[User talk:Lightburst|talk]]) 23:45, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

*:And only for elections... Elections close discussion before voting, to reduce the pressure. <span style="background-color:#50D246;font-family:cambria">[[User:JrandWP|''Just a random Wikipedian'']]</span>^{([[User talk:JrandWP|talk]])} 01:27, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

 

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