User blog comment:Danielboone6702/Admin voting is now public!/@comment-24150879-20140226065137/@comment-1693968-20140301181825

I'm certainly displeased with the complaints, but I'm fully aware that they have the right, and at times, the responsibility to post these complaints. My point was simply that it'd be more effective for them to word it in an encouraging manner, rather than expressing their displeasure for how we are slowly moving towards a community run site, rather than doing it quickly.

Also, the community is making the decisions in a couple of the links above. Votes held in the forum or requests for rights are final decisions, unless the administrators agree to veto it (which is very unlikely). Petitions and recommendations aren't final decisions, but they do give us a sense of obligation to approve of the idea. And the Message Walls/talk pages are an excellent way of giving a good idea to the admins. If it's something that doesn't necessarily need a lot of community support, since it's such a good idea in itself, then you can leave it on a talk page. We've had tons of different features added because of talk page messages.

Having said that, I didn't mean the term "community participation" to be synonymous with the community making the decisions. I meant it to mean that we want heavy input from the community, and we want all of our decisions to be based on their opinions. I understand how that could be misinterpreted, though.