Molu wrote:
This is what I was talking about. When admins consider themselves empowered to completely ignore community consensus on the ground "I know better". The userbox debate has provided the highest amount of this shit, with admins speedying templates kept the day before at TfD. Don't give me that crap about best interests of the encyclopedia, it's subjective and you have no right to overrule community by the virtue of being an administrator. This makes me sick. Thankfully someone with good sense has restored the debate.
For me, "the community" means "the community of people here to build a high quality encyclopedia in a spirit of mutual respect and love," not "the community of whoever happens to show up and make a userbox."
Now, respect and love means taking it easy on people who think that "this user is a satanist" is a good userbox, but it also means making sure they understand that this is Not How We Behave.
--Jimbo