It is possible for users to also participate in communication.
We can read and vote accordingly on the comments and answers to the heavily downvoted An Update to our Community and an Apology.
update: @Machavity's comment is high importance so I'll echo it in this post:
Apology 2.0 seems to have finally learned the lessons V1 did not
but let's wait to see how this new wording is bourne out in corrective actions...