On 09/02/07, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
I had been around for six months, seemed to know what
was going on and
hand't done anything stupid, and so of course I was given adminship upon
request. Why don't we do that now? It's still not hard to take back
adminship if someone badly misuses it, so IMO all RfA candidates should
get adminship by default, with the burden of proof being upon anyone who
thinks they should be denied it to argue why. More concretely, any
unexplained "no" votes should not be counted.
Fully agreed. It seemed to work with many, including me (well, I'll
leave that judgement to the reader ;-)); the current system seems to
be negatively selecting against people who will "be bold" or "ignore
all rules", too, which suggests a slow corruption of our community's
spirit (note that I do not suggest that this is in any way
deliberate). Let's do it - if it doesn't work, we can always return to
the era of the Spanish Inquisition RfA.
--
James D. Forrester
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