On 06/10/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
Proposal: Arbcom states it is willing to desysop people on petition. X many admins, in a set time frame, are willing to sign their names to "This guy keeps doing X and Y and bringing the project into disrepute by so doing"? He's gone, and he can RFA if he wants the bit back. (Arbcom would have the power to say "go away" to frivolous complaints, of course) This proposal is based on the key, and possibly fallacious, assumption that 90% of admins are sane sensible quiet people who know Acting Like A Tosser when it's pointed out to them. (Restricting it to admins isn't meant to be some kind of elegant blackball system for overriding RFA, just to get some guaranteed sanity involved...)
Given recent conflicts on the wiki, particularly the surprisingly nasty one on RFAr right now, I doubt it would *guarantee* sanity. It might be something.
But ... I'm still waiting for anything resembling verifiable evidence that there are clear targets for such a process. That is to say: evidence diffs of problematic behaviour, not just ranting on the mailing list that admins are an evil abusive cabal.
- d.