User blog:Obi the LEGO Fan/Forum Voting

The admins have recently been discussing an old tradition that most of us have forgotten about—or never knew about: forum voting. The community can hold binding votes in Special:Forum about things like policy modification. The only issue that can't be addressed therein is user rights, which are addressed by Requests for Rights, and sanctions (blocks, bans), which can only be appealed to admins or to the Abritration Committee. We just wanted to make sure that the whole community is aware that they have this capability, since it has not been well-publicized (many of the admins were unaware of this process).

We have also modified the policy to reflect forum voting, as it was technically not provided for in the policy hitherto. The only way for a community decision to be overridden is by a unanimous veto by the admin team, which means every single admin (who is not retired) would have to vote against it, a highly unlikely occurrence. Here is a link to the board I set up for forum voting specifically: Board:Community_Voting.