The potential problem with having a council is that it could take too long to get anything done.

Let's say you have issues with a topic someplace, so you start a topic in the Council area asking for people to vote on whether the offending topic should be closed or left open. In order to get a quick reponse you'd have to allow, say, 24 hours for members to vote - 24 hours being the minimum amount of time that would allow members from all around the world to read the topic.

You'd then have to close the topic almost exactly 24 hours after it had opened to 1) ensure an accurate result and 2) to prevent people from voting after the deadline and potentialyl swinging the vote - for example, after 24 hours, 70% might be in favour of closing the offending topic, so we close it. Then other people might vote and it swings to 60% in favour of keeping it open. On the forums, there's no way to tell exactly *when* a vote is cast, unlike replies which are date stamped. So then you've got people arguing that they voted in the 24 hour period (and lying) but with no way to prove it.

Also, you'll have people complaining that they didn't get a chance to vote because they weren't able to log in during that 24 hour period. Well, as far as I'm concerned, decisions are made by those who show up, and frankly I can't be arsed to argue about it.

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