Do you have any evidence that it will lose good people? If an admin has hardly used his tools in 5 months I find it likely that he doesn't bother much. It is then better to promote new admins who actually want to do something for real and not just hypothetically in some future.
However, I find it unfortunate that the quick regain of adminship within 24 hours didn't go through. I think the arguments against the de-adminship policy would have been significantly less then. In the event that someone wants to re-connect, they would then only have to wait 24 hours, which should be acceptable, no?
Regards, Fred
On 8/26/07, GerardM gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, When there is a need to be an admin and DO something, you will either have the buttons and DO the things that need doing or you forget about it. The point of keeping the role of admin is that it is easy to re-connect. The point of being forced to ask to be admin is that the chance of not bothering any more is exactly the reason why this is a bad policy for Commons. You lose good people in this way. Thanks, GerardM
If you lose admin rights due to never using the tools, what's the big
deal?
You wouldn't miss them at all, since you never used them, and if you suddenly decided you wanted to, you can always ask for them back. No point in keeping the status for no reason (much like the many inactive
bureaucrats
on enwiki.)
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