[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[The Cunctator]

On 2/9/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/9/07, James Forrester <jdforrester at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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).
>
> Do you blame them? People have seen the amount of damage admins can do
> before being stopped. They know that if the admin is smart enough and
> not unlucky it is highly unlikely they will be stopped.
>
> So what is the rational response to this situation. To elect safe
> admins who you have a fairly good idea how they will act. That means
> electing admins who respect policy and don't like getting into fights.


Or simply make admin powers an automatic process after hitting some
reasonable editing benchmarks.