It's a good idea, but if we're having such a problem with finding out who to put on the list, then why not only put the OSs, I mean who wouldn't want to see who said yes or no on their hard work and to see why they said what they said. Personally I also think the surveyors are all good builders in general but it's fine if no one wants our opinions.
I don't have anything against surveyor's opinions seeing as you guys are creative staff. One step ahead of designers. If anything I'd encourage you guys to vote. With that being said, some people may disagree.
tbh with harry given i agree with this, you could rule me out too, if this went ahead, which it shouldnt. Why fix something that's not broken?
Haven't you heard that saying before? It means that we dont need this because the server doesn't need it. tl;dr this is a bad idea and there's nothing wrong with the current archi system.
Os's are enough for the Vote team, they already are the vote team, and it has worked so far. I feel like I know far too many people on the server, and to be voting on their builds would be a conflict, since I know I would wind up offending many people...
Like Exavious said; Some players may get voted yes from some people just because they are well liked, they know that person IRL, etc. And not for the quality of the build.
I agree that this could be a bit bias if an architect knows someone trying to become an architect. Also, it would give architects a little too much power to help choose other architects. Its almost like a surveyor giving someone else surveyor. It would make more sense if an architect could help decide new designers though.
You guys are all arguing that the architects would be biased without considering that the OS's could be biased as well. I think the architects voting as well would even it out a little however due to the fact architects going inactive I do not think it is a reasonable solution.
In my opinion (I'm not Archi so it doesn't matter I guess) is that it should be the OS and creative staff that vote on arch applications. The staff are mature enough to vote, being friends with the player or not. But, the OS handle it well, besides it usually being 2+ months until a reply.