Let's make this forum into a Democracy.

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What you're suggesting has actually been the case in a lot of the instances here. The first two mods were selected from the top picks in the moderator poll, and the Serious board was voted in, pretty much.

So, you're free to make a poll and check the forum's pulse, but these suggested ideas will still inevitably be filtered through the staff. Think of us as the ones with the veto power, I suppose.

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Then why not expand upon that idea and make a dedicated section so polls wouldn't clog up the main sections?

It's not needed at all. There have been very few polls suggesting changes to the forum (most of them go here or in The Flood, both of which I frequent and would quickly see). There's a pinned thread The Flood that literally asks what you want out of the forum, and as I've told you (and as you've already done here), you are free to make a poll for your ideas.

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