[fizzwheel]

Its not red tape though. During one bout of discussing the way the forum is run. The feedback was that people wanted to feel more involved in how the AR / Events were organised and choosen, the best way to do that is to open up the discussion / process / decisions to everybody that uses the forum.

That is what as a team of mods / admins we were asked to do by the forum as a collective, which its why its done this way, primarily because "you" as a group wanted it that way.

As for christmas parties, why not, at my workplace, we vote for where we would like to go and then we vote on the dates its held on, once the venue is selected. It works very well and has seen an end to the complaining about one or two people making all the decisions that our christmas party venue selection has seen in the past.