User blog comment:Obi the LEGO Fan/LMBW Committee/@comment-3444778-20130708142650/@comment-3444778-20130708185559

Yes, I do think that's a bad idea. Nothing should be hidden from the community, period. If only the admins should participate, then lock the discussion page and allow everyone else to at least view it.

Okay, I think I got this. The admins converse with the committee to understand the community, and the admins can but are not required to converse with the community directly. Therefore the committee is not a mediating group because it is not the sole medium of communication between the classes and/or the direction of conversation is one-way (community opinion pooled to committee which reports to administration, not reverse). My point is that this is ultimately inferior, when we could have a system in which the community doesn't need the administration to make decisions for them, but rather makes the decisions themselves. The committee project is not quite the ideal solution I had in mind, but it is a step in the right direction.