User blog comment:SpartHawg948/Thank You!!!/@comment-4319257-20130227183229/@comment-217683-20130228114632

Agreed. Which in no way serves to implicate the community at large, merely the admins, since we were the ones responsible, and the handful of editors who sought to use this to carry out a silly vendetta against the admins (which even most of those who voted against the chat policy and for the revote thought was ludicrous).

But yeah, mistakes were definitely made. Not by the community though. So if you've got a beef with the chat situation, I'd lay the blame with the admins, not the community. It is, IMO, the best community on Wikia, which was demonstrated not only by how the community banded together to get a policy they thought ill-advised tossed out, but who then banded together again, in a bi-partisan fashion (both supporters and opponents of the original chat policy) to vote down Mr. Mitten's proposal.