Mao is a fantastic and very effective mod on the forum, and in the past has also done a great job, as Jochen said, of being an organiser in NSC, and setting up ways in which we could discuss the rules and happenings within NSC as a community.
This organisational role is very useful and valuable to NSC, as it restores order when things aren't quite going well, and in this role, mao is a real asset. Nevertheless, it's important to maintain that NSC is and always has been a community game, where specific rules and actions based purely on the game are most importantly a community decision.
When it comes to things like behaviour and conduct on the forum then of couse it's a mod decision, but for the sake of game rules, even the really minor, insignificant ones, I agree that they must all be decided by the community
In the past, all sorts of little things which are now seen as key elements in NSC were decided by lots of different people, e.g. the recap idea from Fearnavigatr, the spinoffs idea from giggsan, the rest jury idea from Boyan... NSC functions best when decisions are all made as a community.
Like we can see with this ongoing decision, polls and questionnaires like this are really the best way to do this, for any sort of rule issue, minor or major
. And, in organising the polls and setting up discussions, mao is the best 
. But for deciding the contents and outcomes of such decisions, ultimately it should be up to all of us 
. It is really not that bad. YOU are still the most important part of the game (we, in the end TF100, Lush, Narcozid and I) are what the game is about. However this contest has grown so much over the past year that it became unavoidable to have a "Management Team" handle things.
Good luck to the British (and Hungarian) athletes too 
