User blog comment:Obi the LEGO Fan/LMBW Committee/@comment-3444778-20130708142650/@comment-3444778-20130708191445

I'm not saying they can't have private discussions, but if there are going to be changes that affect the community, why shouldn't the community know about them, or better yet, participate in them? The admins take community input and mold it into something they think will please the community; wouldn't it be better to let the community mold the decision?

I meant something like pooling other opinions and other viewpoints together when I meant "conversing with the community," as opposed to keeping everything in the dark to the community until the decisions have been made.

@your edit @my edit: I don't consider you specifically to be aloof from the community. You and Rio are full-blown divas. :P But when it comes to decision-making, adding and changing rules and what-not, again, wouldn't it be nicer to let the community shape them, rather than getting some of the users' opinions and then taking them into account to shape those decisions yourselves? We should all be the community, and the difference between admins and everyone else virtually seamless.