[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[Gurch]

William Pietri wrote:
> geni wrote:
> As to the first, that's why I said "almost", but I gather you mean that 
> a rogue with the sysop bit can cause vastly more cleanup work than a 
> regular editor. Is that right?
> 
> As to the second, isn't that a chicken and egg problem? All of those 
> things evolved around having to deal with editorial vandalism. If you 
> rule out any improvement that requires similar evolution, it seems like 
> a generic argument for stasis. If the argument had been applied at the 
> beginning, it would have ruled out open editability, period.
> 
> If the problem is that the current structure hasn't evolved to deal with 
> Y, where Y is a potential harm from an otherwise good X, then isn't the 
> solution is to allow a controlled amount of X to allow the structure to 
> evolve? Or at least to see if the cost of mediating Y ends up being 
> under the benefit of X?
> 
> William

And add to that the fact that the project has been running for six years 
with virtually no Y (possibly even none at all), whereas X happens every 
few seconds?

-Gurch