User blog comment:Magma MK-II/Category Cleanup (continued)/@comment-26884760-20160503193113/@comment-366087-20160504005539

BTW, Super, polls are not endorsed by Staff for purposes of important and serious wikia decisions. Polls are good for fun things, but they can be rigged by users with multiple alt accounts as well as no way to track *who* casts a vote.

So when it comes to important wikia issues, for example demoting an Admin or removing a 'crat, Staff wants to see comments in threads so if necessary they can track users and even checkuser them to see if they are the same person or not. They will ignore poll results and make wikia redo votes with threads.

Besides, putting some things to a vote is already defeated from the start, you know how many/most in this community feel about the cleanup…