Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-10473115-20160216215632/@comment-100066-20160217024022

The goal behind the admins-only board is a hold over from our old forums, which were a separate site. It was very useful to have a place where the admins could discuss things about users, policies, potential admins, and the direction we wanted the site to take. We liked having those discussions privately because we could work out all of our differences with each other and then present a united front when we made policy changes or recommendations to the site as a whole.

It was also very useful for deciding who we would nominate for new admins. The discussions there were very honest and we knew that we could discuss users editing activity and general behavior freely without fear of hurting people's feelings or having our discussions be misunderstood.

There are many, many places on this site where users can discuss whatever topics they want, but it is still very useful to have a place which is for administrative discussions only.

If a user wants to share their opinion, they only have to read the board (which is public), see which admins are posting, and then talk to that admin directly.