User blog comment:Captaingoldvane2/Community Vote: The User's Assembly/@comment-3028058-20110909164613

To any and all who think that the Assembly is some way of rivaling or exceeding admins in power or control:

That's not what it's about at all, you can clearly see this by reading the original archived page. It was formed as a way to peacefully protest (temporarily) and later, petition the admins in the same way you would petition a government. The admins appreciated it (Curycoo even protected the page) because at that time, things were getting NASTY on the wiki: it was in a state of virtual civil war (which I was in part responsible for causing, along with a few other users and admins). Seeing it needed to stop, I created the Assembly to have a way for users to vent and ask for changes without those requests being deleted or obscured. There's nothing 'power' related in it at all.