User blog comment:Agent Spy/My thoughts on the wiki/@comment-4845243-20140327051727/@comment-4845243-20140327154850

Of course the community could make some bad decisions, but so could the admin team—and so has the admin team. As I said, I have multiple reasons for wanting the ultimate power to be in the hands of the community. One more reason is that just because we have the tools to edit protected pages, block users, promote people to chatmod, and etc., our opinions are no more valid or important to this wiki (which is by definition a community project) than the opinions of anyone else. We have used our rights to dictate what may and may not happen on this wiki even though we should be no different than other community members, except that we have extra tools. We really have no right to do that. Everyone has an equal right, just as much as we do, to deciding what happens on this wiki.

Furthermore, putting us in charge puts the gratuitous responsibility on our shoulders to take responsibility for all problems and solve them all, instead of the community as a whole being responsible. Frankly, as I said, we have neither the time, resources, or energy to be the wikis rulers, besides it being unfair. The community may make bad decisions, but they need to stand or fall on their own feet. We have neither the right nor the capability to effectively run the wiki in a way that meets the needs of the community.

I have more reasons, but I don't have time to write them up right now. I may write my own blog about this.