A sysop is able to "descent from the clouds" and "rain holy thunder upon
him"?
I find it rather questionable that you make these metaphors... adminship is
not something godly that is used to lay whoopass down upon others... it
should be used as a tool to help the editors, not to burn them.
And seriously, I do not believe in Jimbos "devine vengeance"...
On 16/02/07, Flame Viper <flameviper12(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
It would be a terrible idea to give *every editor* admin powers. If you
don't believe me, let me give an outline of what would happen:
1. Main page is deleted/restored/deleted/unprotected/protected/etc
2. Main page is replaced with tubgirl/goatse/meatspin
3: MediaWiki namespace is trashed/vandalised/deleted
4: Random editors are blocked for no reason
5: Random pages are deleted/protected for no reason
And the terrible thing about this is that nobody could stop it. Normally,
when an edit war breaks out, a sysop is able to descend from the clouds and
settle things. When there is an abusive editor, a sysop can rain holy
thunder upon him.
If every editor can block, unblock, and generally destroy everything,
who's next? Will the bureaucrats have to step in and lay down a Supreme
Block? And then what if Bureaucrat is made a default right? And up until
Steward? Will Jimbo have to step into the fray and lay his divine vengeance?
Now the continuation of expanding user rights is just hypothetical, but it
gives you an idea.
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