On Sunday 02 March 2008 17:20, Thomas Dalton wrote:
Besides,
anything that makes more work for our servants isn't a bad
thing.
Admins are not servants, they are under-appreciated volunteers.
Like government, administrators on Wikipedia are at best a necessary evil, and
at worst a threat to everything important. They must be kept under strict
control: a close watch and a short leash at all times.
They are volunteers, yes: they volunteer to be our servants. They should not
act on their own initiative, but merely implement the will of the community.
The more unpleasant and difficult we can make their task, the fewer eminently
unsuited volunteers we'll have to sift through. We should make it so that
only those completely and genuinely interested in being the servants of the
community at large will want to bother with it.
--
Kurt Weber
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