User blog comment:Doc (K-)Flux(7)/Free Speech- How it applies to us, and how we should use it/@comment-24842353-20140606224541/@comment-24842353-20140607183746

Just going to respond to your last point about letting the public decide on policies...

If the public were to decide on policies, I and all my friends, family, coworkers, etc could log out and make radical votes or proposals that would negatively affect the wiki. Not saying I'd do that of course, but that's the kind of thing that could happen if the public, not merely the community, decided on the policies and procedures this wiki has.