On 6 Oct 2006, at 20:51, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 10/6/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Some adminship requests get opposed because the user aren't familiar in a specific field of administrator work. If we could specifically give people the tools they have the knowledge for, more requests would succeed. Perhaps it's time to run that plan to give people separate admin tools.
Even as screwed up as things are today with respect to RFA the fact remains that adminship is more about trust than about knowledge. If we can't *trust you* to refrain from breaking the site too badly than you should have exactly zero admin features.
That adminship is mostly is sometimes being obscured the fact that there is no clear way to measure trust... but breaking up adminship into little boxes will not solve that.
It is a shame because the tools of adminship are really tools which every experienced user acting in good faith should have. ... that was always the intent, .. Remember? "No big deal". But life has turned out so much more complex.
That's because people don't trust strangers, and most people on RfA are strangers.
Basically, paranoia is safer.