M Roget wrote:
Can we have a rule that states that any admin who "quits" Wikipedia to protest this or that is automatically desysopped? It's one thing to take a wikibreak or to leave because of real life time commitments but any admin who quits in order to make a point has abdicated their responsibilities.
I used to be a manager; if I knew a valued employee was under some kind of overwhelming personal or professional stress, and they said "I quit", I'd say "go home and chill out, let's talk about it in a few days". Just as for companies, WP has a significant investment in experienced people, and it's foolish to throw it away on a whim. As they say in the military, everybody breaks under torture, and we've been way too tolerant of sadistic nutcases who will stop at nothing to get their way.
Stan