It's an issue of the WC.
Most sites really are tyrannies.
We have been trying to run
ourselves. Most members who
wanted to join the body, didn't
have the stomach to face what is
involved in democracy.
Actually, most of realised that the site shouldn't have to be about running the site alone because it's no fun.
We've had very, very few rules in the past, so at one point, a few months ago, we (in this case, the ruling axis of evil) wanted to try direct democracy by introducing a world council for the everyday decision-making process. We compared the function to a town hall meeting, an inclusive setting where everyone even remotely interested in the site could have their say.
What happened instead was a mess where everything was put to vote, all the time. The town hall meetings needed to be more exclusive, impeachment procedures had to be created, Intensity supposedly required a constitution, polls were started out of spite, etc, etc, etc.
And of course, every poll was followed by endless discussions spreading all over the board, people were attacked, accusations were made, and if anyone pointed out that the whole thing was becoming boring or tedious or whatever, that, of course, was an attack on democracy itself.
And eventually Dunc, the Jolly Despot, started a vote to end the mess. *I* think it's to get some of the fun back. And to me it looks like the membership agrees.
"Is she gone yet?"