Thread:Drew1200/@comment-7855039-20140807183359/@comment-1693968-20140809133559

1) I think it'd be a lot better as a community vote. It's been up for quite awhile, and I'm confident that most everyone has seen it. Being that there's only 15 signatures, I felt like that left a lot of room for people who wanted to keep the Visual Editor. I just thought it'd be better to have it as a community vote so that people could voice their opinions both ways. Being that the petition's getting old, I thought it'd be good to take action on it sometime soon, and a community vote forces action, unlike a petition.

2) The only point in petitions is to give the admins a better idea of what the community wants. If the community really wants something, the petition will get 20 votes, which gives the admins more of an obligation to pass the petition. If it doesn't have 20 votes, we're still allowed to vote on it if it appears to be something the community wants, we just don't have any obligation to pass it as successful. In this case, we thought they were a good idea, and we passed them.