Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-10112739-20160102070335/@comment-4845243-20160102185123

I'll step in just to give some advice on the legitimacy of this vote, since I have no stake in this and can act as an impartial third party...

1) Technically, the rules require admins to approve unblocking or shortening blocks

2) However, LMBW:UCS also applies here. If the community believes the above rule is damaging the community in this case, they can legitimately ignore it.

3) AFAIK, the admins don't really have authority to delete a community voting topic just because they interpret it as illegitimate - but I don't recall any rules which deal specifically with this. If anyone knows where these might be, that would be relevant to the discussion.