Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-5643582-20150425202708/@comment-25625534-20150426010145

LegoSuperBowser wrote: Eh, neutral. If a petition reaches 20 votes I fail to see how that isn't as democratic. I mean, are 40 people going to vote on something if it wasn't a petition but a community vote?

 L • S  • B Petitions are biased toward the support. You could have two votes, one a petition and the other a community vote, and have the same number of people vote on them. The petition could get 20 signatures and pass, while the CV might get 20 supports and 21 opposes and not pass, even though all the same users with the same viewpoints and arguments participated in both. Petitions are just easier to pass, and misrepresent the number of people who oppose, due to not actually having any kind of oppose function.