Security through obscurity is inferior to security by design, and for that reason I agree that the voting policy should be transparent to all.
That said, I have not noticed the quality issues the original author laments.
That said, I have not noticed the quality issues the original author laments.
The problem is that the special few who get disenfranchised have no idea such a thing has happened, and apparently it's not happening because they are trolls or expressing some other type of undesirable behavior, it's happening purely based off of some arbitrary calculation of the week that's otherwise completely hidden from the users -- so in the end there's no reason at all for it to be part of the system.