On 5/27/06, Will Sceptre Noble
<tintower(a)tintower.tk> wrote:
I have to admit, that is disgusting. Especially
sgrayban, who I can't
believe thinks destroying someones career is ethical.
You have a bunch of people who tend to be somewhat socially difficult
to begin with, add another bunch of people who are not just difficult
but downright mental, and give them a single enemy to focus on.
Witness what humanity is capable of and be glad that it's just a
website on the Internet. "He's a member of group X, therefore common
human decency no longer applies."
Unfortunately, being an active admin these days means that sooner or
later, you're going to be the target of some abuse. It's almost like
our anal criteria of adminship (x% edit summaries, >n% in namespace
foo, etc.) have evolved to make sure that only those who are
sufficiently die hard Wikipedians will be exposed to this ugly side of
a large, open online community. Still, it saddens me greatly whenever
a good user like Katefan0 gets trampled on, and I wish we could do
more to help them.
A radical proposal for you all then:
Delink administrative actions from user accounts. Give admins access to
a shared admin account, with a private log linking actions to the users
who have done them, viewable only by other admins.
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