User blog comment:Mr Creeper500/Democracy or Oligarchy?/@comment-5065259-20160525220549

in regards to trolls or other disruptive users, that's the responsibility of admins to block those users on sight without really much of a warning; their main purpose is to cause disruption and as such are automatically blockable. no reason to really tolerate them.

as for voting, the most important thing to keep in mind is you can place more weight towards active users. What this means is: new users on average have no idea what's going on or much of the senario that's up for debate. On the otherhand, more active users are more aware and are likely to understand what's going on. Thus by giving active users more weight to their opinion, the result is a much better consensus or decision reached. when dealing with promotions and demotions, depending on the community; it may just be best for admins/bcrats to stay out of it to perform the consensus as neutral parties.

when technical issues come to play, sometimes the more experienced technical experts should be listened too.