New MZMcBride RfA, The third installment Options

[Ahypori]

Now here's an RfA that'll likely be interesting, MZMcBride 3. I was wondering when we'd see this one.

[Ahypori]

Now he's being asked how he'd close his own RfA. That has to be one of the silliest questions I've seen yet on an RfA, especially since it's relevant to RfB, and RfB candidates don't even get asked how they'd close their own RfAs.

[Malleus]

Now he's being asked how he'd close his own RfA. That has to be one of the silliest questions I've seen yet on an RfA, especially since it's relevant to RfB, and RfB candidates don't even get asked how they'd close their own RfAs.

Seems like a perfectly sensible question to me.

[Nerd]

Now he's being asked how he'd close his own RfA. That has to be one of the silliest questions I've seen yet on an RfA, especially since it's relevant to RfB, and RfB candidates don't even get asked how they'd close their own RfAs.

Seems like a perfectly sensible question to me.

I'm not understanding how it's sensible, or relevant. Do explain.

[Malleus]

Now he's being asked how he'd close his own RfA. That has to be one of the silliest questions I've seen yet on an RfA, especially since it's relevant to RfB, and RfB candidates don't even get asked how they'd close their own RfAs.

Seems like a perfectly sensible question to me.

I'm not understanding how it's sensible, or relevant. Do explain.

It's asking the candidate to evaluate consensus on a topic where (s)he will clearly feel an emotional attachment. isn't evaluating consensus fairly supposed to be one of the things that administrators ought to be able to do?

[Nerd]

Now he's being asked how he'd close his own RfA. That has to be one of the silliest questions I've seen yet on an RfA, especially since it's relevant to RfB, and RfB candidates don't even get asked how they'd close their own RfAs.

Seems like a perfectly sensible question to me.

I'm not understanding how it's sensible, or relevant. Do explain.

It's asking the candidate to evaluate consensus on a topic where (s)he will clearly feel an emotional attachment. isn't evaluating consensus fairly supposed to be one of the things that administrators ought to be able to do?

Yes, but if he was emotionally attached to a topic, he wouldn't take an administrative action on it. Likewise, if he nominated someone for adminship, he wouldn't promote the guy at the end. A better question might have been asking him how he'd close a certain AFD or MFD or whatever, because admins cannot close RFAs. Everyone knows RFAs aren't consensus based anyway.

The best answer for him would be that he would abstain. It's a nonsense analogy suggesting he had to close his own RFA.