On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 12:39:58PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
There are plenty of admins (esp of the sort that are glad to undertake blocks but don't do much of the real grunt work like closing VFDs they are uninterested in), we need to avoid the perception of misuse by admins by enforcing a rule against administrative action against users where the admin has had a history of dispute with the same unblinking grind as we've used with 3rr.
Agreed.
If administrative access is supposed to be "no big deal", then it mustn't be usable to get one's way in a dispute.
It would be much better if people who are in a dispute and happen to have administrative access would just temporarily forget that they have that access, so as not to give any impression of abusing it. In a dispute, an administrator should do the same things that any other experienced user would do -- including, if necessary, calling for some other administrator to take action such as blocking an offender.
Admins who unblock themselves or take administrative action against a user they are in dispute with should be subject to a self-enforced administrative suspension (which backed up by deadminship).
Deadmin? Isn't he that DC Comics character with the red suit and the pale expression? :)