Board Thread:Chat Mod and Elections/@comment-3571637-20160423211857/@comment-26035847-20160427014504

Mr B Natural wrote: I say do away with edit requirements for admins altogether. Users already need at least 100 edits to vote in such matters. We can trust these users to nominate a qualified person. A major point of admins is to have someone with authority who can shut down problems with users, which would happen in chat and on threads. Thus, while mainspace edits are useful when nominating an admin who would presumably manage deletion and rename nominations, page creation, etc., not all admins need to be for this purpose.

I agree with this 100%. I know I agreed to the edit requirements when the planning for this election rolled around but, everyone's made such good points that I can't really help but change my mind. Plus I made the dumb decision to agree to the edit requirements without checking which users even had them (which was like, one), so I'll take the blame for that.