We keep fooling ourselves with the concept that an online forum is a community. It's a community in that you meet many people with relatively similar interests, and the forum gradually takes on a certain colour. But it's not a community in that, no matter how groovy the group may be, the forum is always owned and operated by one person or a very small number of persons. It's not a democracy, it's not consensus-based, it's not any of that coolio bullshit we gamers so love.
AFAIK, RPGNet belongs to Shannon Appelcline. The Forge belongs to Ron Edwards and Clinton Nixon. The RPG Site belongs to a self-appointed pundit. Gamecraft belongs to Levi Kornelsen. Story Games belongs to Andrew Kitkowski. Etc., etc. Some of these guys are really reasonable, some are pains in the ass.
But none of these sites are operated by vote, and we just have to get that through our heads. It took me a while to resign myself to that but I think I got it now.