User blog comment:Obi the LEGO Fan/Regulating "Admin Talk"/@comment-4091019-20150307003642/@comment-25995065-20150307051938

To add on to Obi the LEGO Fan's comment: Efficiency - Actually, I can. Currently, policy decisions and the like already are made by the community. However, we often discuss them on admin talk first and then pass them by the community in a vote. By cutting out the preliminary discussion with admins and going straight to the community, we cut out an unnecessary step. This step is also inefficient because of how inactive some of the admins are. Whereas, in a community vote, activity determines how much say you get. If you aren't active, you just don't get a say, increasing efficiency.

Removing the preliminary admin discussion also increases efficiency, because the entire discussion is then public. With the preliminary admin discussion, the community doesn't entirely know what was already brought up, considered, or discussed in the preliminary admin discussion. Having it all public prevents repeating discussions that were already held but the community wasn't aware of.