Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-10112739-20160102070335/@comment-5052737-20160102190824

Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: 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. The problem is this phrase...

"A block is never to be undone, shortened, or lengthened, unless it has been discussed and approved by multiple admins."

This thread would probably make more sense if it were a petition... However, petitions got banned in a community vote. A community vote for unblocking a user doesn't make sense if, in the end, the admins have to approve it.

So basically this topic will accomplish nothing.

And I remember a couple of cases in which we had to delete CVs to block Yada as we passed them off as joke CVs... Indeed, there aren't really any rules dealing with "illegitimate" CVs.