I didn't suggest making it harder to become an admin.
I suggested making it easier for more people to have "some" power, without
lowering the bar for people to attain the "absolute" power an adminship now
entails.
I'm also suggesting that without the burden of such powers, perhaps some of
the more incivil admins might be able to take a load off, relax, and leave
the really heavy stuff to those who could handle it better and without being
incivil.
Parker
On 10/6/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 06/10/06, Parker Peters <onmywayoutster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Part of the problem I think with admins who get on power trips is that
one
day, they went from being an un-powerful little
normal editor, to the
next
day being able to do all these amazing things.
Imagine if you one day
woke
up with x-ray vision: your first thought would
probably be to use it on
your
hot next-door neighbor, wouldn't it?
It been traditional for Wikipedia to have as many admins as possible
without
laxing our barriers to adminship too much. I think this is from the open
source "many eyes catch all the bugs" school of thinking. The reason we
are
able to do this is because, as someone has already mentioned, all admin
actions are recorded and reversible.
I also do not think that making it harder to become an admin would make
some
admins more civil. Many of the most curt admins (perhaps read "uncivil")
have been with us for a long time. Clearly, their curtness has nothing to
do
with your X-ray effect and is more related to a jaded outlook.
--
Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)
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