User blog comment:Danielboone6702/Admin voting is now public!/@comment-33628828-20140223005447/@comment-1693968-20140224164119

There are very few things we don't allow the community to decide. It's pretty much limited to administrator and bureaucrat promotions. Everything else we allow the community to choose, and simply keep the right veto pretty much anything. The reason that the administrators are making most of the decisions is because we're the ones who seem to have the most initiative, and it's much easier and seemingly more effective to discuss it privately than publicly.