Board Thread:Help desk/@comment-4022742-20121004135507/@comment-1445357-20121004141548

You could say the Admin forum is a place to bring things to the administration's attention rather than being a private forum for administrators.

Wall privacy was never supposed to be private, as Message Walls are supposed to be used solely for wiki-related activity (much like the User Talk page it replaces) instead of idle chatter which a lot of people seem to think it is.

Voting was done manually. As far as I know, wikia doesn't have a polling system in place on our forums yet, and I'm not keen on using the private polls that people use on blogs. Forcing people to associate themselves with the stance they support makes people think more about the issue.