Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5264386-20140810061848/@comment-25173123-20140816073925

Legendary Bloatfly wrote: ...Except the proposed procedures and their sustainability are partially dependant on the maturity of the community, like whether or not we can handle changes like these while maintaining abstinence from attacking each other over opinions, abusing power or any other aspect of said proposals, etc. Which is the point itself. Current community maturity means little to sustainability as procedures do not account for anything but a positive implementation with no analysis of potential negative manipulation caused by said procedures implementation.

Double edged sword fits nicely into the situation we are facing with implementation of a democratic vote based system that has no checks and balances put in place to preserve the integrity of the site in it's current form.

Think of the guy who starts up a business, makes it a great thing and then gives control of said business over to a board of businessmen, and their first order of business? Push the owner out and sell off the business to China.

Ask Bill Gates about Apple. (they were lucky enough to bring him back.)

Last word on any of that... you guys do what you need to do. But count me out. (one less vote of discord against this idea of empowering the masses to run it all.)