--- Daniel Ehrenberg <littledanehren(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I guess a sysop is more like a judge. I don't
think it
is fair to say that sysops are a police force. Being a
policeman (or woman) implies doing something
compulsively, without consent, as opposed to someone
more like a judge, who consents all involved parties
as well as the rules/laws, the previous precedents,
and the jury (in this case the Wikipedia community).
If sysops are going to consider themselves judges, we're going to
have serious long-term problems.
I for one prefer the Jimbo-as-judge, everybody else enforce his
decisions, either through force (police==sysop) or persuasion
(coaching==caring user).
Otherwise we'll run into the situation of he-said she-said.
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Christopher Mahan
chris_mahan(a)yahoo.com
818.943.1850 cell
http://www.christophermahan.com/
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