Forum:Vote: Chat emoticon maintenance policy

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The purpose of this poll is to determine how new emoticons are going to be added in the future. Either we leave it up to the administrators to determine which emotes, if any, are going to be added in a ad-hoc basis (the current system), or if new emotes should be added exclusively by means of community polls.

Simultaneous but independent of this vote is the one to determine which of the emoticons already in existence are going to remain, and can be found here.

The previous community discussions of this topic can be found here and here, and the preliminary vote discussion cane be found here.

How should the chat emoticons be maintained?

• Sysop discretion: chat emoticons will be added at the discretion of the administrators. Suggestions for inclusions or removals should be forwarded to them.
• Polls: chat emoticons will be added by means of community polls.

Vote

Poll finished on 9:52 pm February 10, 2014 (UTC).

• A consensus must be reached by voting before any action is taken.
• You can vote by placing the following line in the appropriate section of the option you support:
  • # {{yes}} ~~~~
  • # {{no}} ~~~~
• Please do not edit other user's votes.

Sysop discretion

1. I believe the alternative is just bureaucratic busywork. The system worked fine so far, and in almost three years only a single incident happened regarding emoticons.
   Limmiegirl ^{Talk! ♪}
2. 69.l25 (talk)
3.   OfficialLolGuy  Talk  Blog  22:02, February 3, 2014 (UTC)
4. I think it's best we leave this to the administrators for good judgement. It's worked so far so I see no reason to change it. If it ain't broke don't fix it. ---bleep196- (talk) 22:04, February 3, 2014 (UTC)
5. Limmie and bleep summed up my reason well enough. RAM 22:45, February 3, 2014 (UTC)
6. --Skire (talk) 23:11, February 3, 2014 (UTC)
7. Waaaaaaaaay too much voting lately. I trust the admins/bureaucrats that they can handle what they were voted for. ^Greets Peace'n Hugs (talk) (blog)
8. Because doing it by poll is, frankly, a bad idea.  A Follower  Talk  01:34, February 4, 2014 (UTC)
9. The easiest course of action. The alternative is just far to much effort for far too little return. --The Old World Relics ^{(talk/blog/contributions)} 01:38, February 4, 2014 (UTC)
10. Like what the general consensus seems to be, I feel community polls are superfluous and would muddle things up quite a bit. --TwoBearsHigh-Fiving 01:40, February 4, 2014 (UTC)
11. ^Spocklan116 03:12, February 4, 2014 (UTC)
12. Any option other than letting sysops use their judgement is unnecessary. _{Into the wild blue yonder...} 03:17, February 4, 2014 (UTC)
13. As a casual user here but a user of many wikis, I saw this and I feel that sysops need to be able to use their judgement as long as they can be trusted. Nitsua Xepher! 07:31, February 4, 2014 (UTC)
14. MountHail (talk) 17:38, February 5, 2014 (UTC)
15. This is the optimal approach in both time and decisiveness over something so spontaneous and simple as emoticons. --The Ever Ruler (talk) 22:15, February 5, 2014 (UTC)

Results

New chat-emoticons will be added at sysop discretion. Limmie, I'll leave it to you to add it to the chatpolicy. Jspoel 00:35, February 11, 2014 (UTC)