On 8/12/07, Herby herbythyme@fmail.co.uk wrote:
With all respect to those affected concerns were raised about inactive Admins on various community pages in March & April. Discussion on the policy started in May and was advertised on the Village pump and the Admin board. The vote when it took place was also advertised similarly.
And yet only 33 people voted or commented at all.
I guess it surprises me that people who consider themselves active do not watch such pages. Equally be signing up to request retaining the rights they retain the rights for six months at least. My fervent hope would be that they again become active admins on Commons however the only way they would not have known about the discussion is because they rarely read community pages on Commons.
Yes, I rarely read community pages on Commons. I rarely and certainly don't reliably read community pages on en.wikipedia either, and I'm an Arbcom member and long-standing admin there. Frankly, I find them tedious in the extreme, and largely filled with endless re-hashing of disagreements of no interest to me.
Neither board is a place just for important announcements, as far as I an tell.
-Matt