not having a board would probably not be any better than having a board. for example, lets take a map voting session. the board does extensive testing on each map and whatnot. lets assume a group of people consisting of 16 players are appointed (woah hey fundamental flaw #1: not a true democracy!) by a scrounging group of morons begging for scraps like hobos that I commonly abduct bi-weekly that is the &quot;idl democracy&quot;. for a true democracy to work every person would need a say in everything and everything that takes place. (flaw #2: EXTREMELY time consuming) (flaw #3: morons would vote on things. I don&#039;t want jarin making my idl map decisions, thank you!) and its quite common for people to get shunned out of decisions. say for example a guy named Jared brings up a suggestion that sounds reasonable to some people, stupid to others. the people who think its stupid are very vocal and yell at jared for eating shit for breakfast or something. jared doesn&#039;t bring anything else up, even though some of his suggestions may be very valid! (flaw #4: some people get discouraged from speaking up)<br /><br />in the end, while the board IS flawed, its better than pretty much any other choice I can think of. 