Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-4257955-20150306000303/@comment-4845243-20150306042121

Yes it seems farfetched, and no one is claiming that such a thing is happening. Not one person mentioned any of that.

The problem is that these things affect the entire community. The community members' opinions are just as important as the admins', so there is no reason to allow the admins to make the decisions on those kind of things.

Also, the problem with off-wiki discussions between admins is that the community cannot benefit from our thought process. If we discuss in private, then the community doesn't have access to our reasoning. Why should we restrict our ideas to a private discussion when they could be public? When we have a public discussion we can get more feedback and come up with more ideas. This would help the community to understand why we are supporting something.

Having discussions on admin talk instead of the wiki decreases education, decreases accountability, decreases the community's ability to understand where we are coming from, and has no actual benefits. The costs of discussing issues that impact the whole wiki on admin talk are clear, and the benefits are very small if there are any at all. Thus, in a cost-benefit analysis, having the discussions here easily wins.