Paper Flowers wrote:Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds wrote:What is the point of the whole "don't commend yourself" rule when proxies are so easily employed to do it for us?
Without having seen the original draft (so I don't know what Unibot objected to,) I would say there are some situations where it makes sense to at least take into account the opinion of the person you wish to commend. An example could be if Mahaj had put in something that Unibot didn't feel was worthy of commendation, or thought some of the details were inaccurate.
Basically there's a difference between "I'm going to write a commendation about <x>....I'd better get their opinion on it" and <x> saying "hey, go write a commendation about me."
Indeed, that was basically what it was, thank you for your comment.