Board Thread:The Seven Seas Court/@comment-4093783-20141026054842/@comment-1279322-20141028221801

Honestly, I was leaning on support when this came up last night, for a variety of reasons. For starters, Nults was so confident that I'd oppose, and I wanted to prove that wrong :3. Secondly, I value users' opinions; everyone makes mistakes&mdash;even admins and mods&mdash;and I want to be able to improve how I do my job whenever I get the chance.

However, I decided to hold back on my vote and think about it for the next few hours (don't want to vote too soon, would prefer making sure I've made a final decision so I don't have to keep flip-flopping), contemplating what Mallace, Al, and Gavin said.

Afterwards, I briefly contemplated switching to oppose because like Mall said, we have chat, talk pages, and private messages where we can give suggestions and feedback to mods and admins so they can improve. Al and Gavin also made a point: this system can be very easily abused&mdash;a group of users suddenly decide they don't like something, start a petition to get it repealed, a few people hop on the bandwagon (let's be honest with ourselves, some of us do that), and the next thing you know, everyone's getting angry at the staff because they're not bending their knees to the petition.

On the other hand though, users should have the right to voice their opinions (and should things get out of hand, we can simply delete comments or the blog itself). In fact, I was under the impression users already had the right to petition&mdash;with the exception of banned/blacklisted users for obvious reasons&mdash;but I guess this can "officialize" it like we did with Mall's proposal on arguments a few weeks back.

In short, I this proposal (again, there will obviously be topics that won't be allowed, such as bans; just because someone's popular doesn't mean they should be unbanned :P) and hope for the best: that our users refrain from abusing this. If they do, I highly recommend scraping the ability.