Let me better rephrase myself: The community will always get a word in when it comes to bijuu-related discussions, but in the end the council is the one that has the final say so. Since their vote would decide if that proposition regarding that bijuu-related subject will become a new bijuu-related rule or not.
Let me try a different approach, as clearly my previous one did not get the perspective across.
Say that there are 15 people who care about biju left on this site, just hypothetically speaking, and 7 of them consist of the Biju Council members. Even if the Council votes 7 to nothing for yes on an issue then if the non-Council members were to vote 8 to nothing no, then the non-Council member vote takes the day.
More likely than not it is going to be more of a mixture. It is pointless having two separate votes. Why is there such an insistence on changing the way that rules are added and changed all of a sudden?
They're worried about the council governing themselves on what they can and can't do. Which is understandable if you take into consideration certain parts of history. In that aspect it's a bad idea. That being said I wouldn't rank the SL Council on par with said historical circumstances...
I am worried about the Council becoming so powerful that it becomes redundant and, as people feared during the 1st cohort, so powerful that it goes beyond the original intention of the Council.
From the get-go I warned and showed concern about the Council defacto changing the rules if the process for amending rules and the Council's own responsbilities were not written in stone, but this goes to a whole nother level of conspiracy. If everyone on the Council is so tight that the Council vote alone would smash the non-Council and one or two Council dissenter voters, it becomes a majority rules situation again just like before the Council was established. Which means that the Council becomes "the community", not just "a part of the community", and once again the community is left alone to completely regulate itself. Making having a "Council" pointless.
The original intent of the Council was for it to faithfully enforce the rules, an Executive Branch if you will, that was a select few trusted RPers who would be unbiased somewhat in their efforts. Due to the increase in the size of the Council and the opening up to jinchurikii, conflicts of interest have been creeping up in subtle ways here and there. To say that only the Council vote matters both for practical and for theoretical reasons is akin to giving the President of the United States and his Cabinent the power to write laws (not just executive orders and similar things).
We are editing just one rule that allows us to judge bijuu matches. It makes sense to me that the ones who decide on bijuu rules can also judge bijuu matches.
That's not the Council's job, the Council has not been explicitly given that power at any point in this process. The ones who enforce and perhaps even interpret the rules, not create or edit, the biju rules describe the Council.
Am I talking to people who had nothing to do with the process of creating this iteration of the Council or something? I don't see how else there is confusion on why this notion - of the Council vote alone determining if a rule that affects the Council's powers and duties is editted one way or another - does not have a rattling effect, particularly on non-Council members.
SL is full of examples of loophole and rule abuse. This forum has got plenty from the old biju days that we might can dig through.