IMO the old way of promoting should be expanded to include nominations by current Admins. And all nominations should be accepted with a single "seconded" by another Admin unless there is somebody (Admin or not) on the list that disagrees. <evil>If and when there is disagreement we can just drop the nomination and not even tell the person that they were nominated.</evil>
We can continue to yell and scream whenever a controversial user asks to be an Admin (like we are now) but uncontroversial users who tend to almost always work nicely with others and follow NPOV (like the ones I listed, IMO) should be promoted semi-automatically via nominations by current Admins.
But we should tell them /right after/ their accounts are upgraded just so they don't freak-out and think that a developer goofed and made all users Admins.
CRY HAVOC!
Sorry, I'm feeling particularly Evil (TM) tonight.
hum Evil Mav (TM), I have an angelic question...(may I ?)
How do you plan exactly this semi-automatic sysop granting to remain "secret" (unknown) to the candidate provided that it has to be backed-up by two sysops, and not to rejected by other sysops ? (hence to be public somehow)
Hum...is there another list hidden somewhere just for sysop I am not aware of ? Or is it that being non sysop, I should not be reading this list ? :-)))
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