User blog comment:Obi the LEGO Fan/LMBW Committee/@comment-3444778-20130708142650/@comment-3444778-20130709135151

@1: Yes, everyone has the opportunity to share their opinion. But then no one is encouraged to provide their input unless the administrators specifically ask for it, and in the end it's still the admins' decision.

@2: If you mean by polls, then no, definitely not. Voting would only be ideal after the community has finished discussing it, and the options being everything the community has brought up. Even still, I could only imagine those not being limiting when there are two clear options. If you mean forum style voting, then yes. Everyone's allowed to express what they desire and explain why, and any idea with something like a 75% agreement rate be made official. All we'd need a system to control this method (numbers and voting methods), which will add the rigidity that it lacks in comparison to the "through-admins" method that we're using and you're currently advocating.