User blog comment:Obi the LEGO Fan/LMBW Committee/@comment-3444778-20130708142650/@comment-4845243-20130709153740

1) So, you want us to encourage community input? Fair enough, but what kind of things did you have in mind? If this community is ready to make all the decisions itself, then why does it need prompting from admins to get involved? If they are that dependent on the admins, then they most likely aren't ready.

2) Okay, so this comes back to the issue of efficiency. You still haven't convinced me that giving the community "encouragement" for input or even turning into a representative democracy would actually benefit the community. There are so many issues: bans, blocks, promotions, editing structure, extensions, rules, and various other things, that having each decided by the community would make us an ossified democracy at best.

You will have to show me some actual evidence that 1) this plan will benefit the community and 2) the benefits outweigh the losses and 3) the community actually wants it.