[WikiEN-l] Your comments on wikien-l regarding adminship

[Timwi]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>Where's your evidence for that last sentence?
>>
>>As far as I'm aware, this theory has never been put to practice, so I
>>don't see how you can make such a claim.
> 
> I think the amount of effort we have to put in to cleaning up regular
> vandalism is evidence enough. Using the same system for assigning
> admin powers as we use for assigning editing powers *will* result in
> large amounts of admin vandalism, that's just simple extrapolation.
> Saying that cleaning up admin vandalism will be harder than cleaning
> up regular vandalism is a logical deduction, it's not based on
> evidence, you're right, but it is based on very solid reasoning.

I didn't contest any of that. I contested the (fallacious) conclusion 
that "it doesn't work in practice".

Everyone thought that about editing too, until Wikipedia proved everyone 
wrong.

Timwi