Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-10112739-20160102070335/@comment-4845243-20160105212742

Alemas2005 wrote: Obi the LEGO Fan wrote: Very rarely does the community try to override any rules (if they oppose a rule on principle they can just have a community vote to change the rule). So 99% of the time, the extent bureaucratic mechanisms are allowed to role on as usual. :P ...so you are saying this case belongs to the 1% of the time? Idk. That depends on whether they actually want to override the rules. I think that the OP does not demonstrate an understanding of the fact that unblocking without admin approval does violate the rules, and thus many of the voters are/were unaware of that fact. That's why I think an explicit vote calling for us to go against the rule is needed to move forward — as it is, nothing can come of this vote (expect the admins can reconsider the evidence).