On 2/9/07, Keitei nihthraefn@gmail.com wrote:
In order to become an admin, one must have an impeccable track record and have been aiming for adminship for quite some time. Then one must jump through all sorts of flaming hoops while all the people one gets along with the least gather to heckle. Then having become an admin, one gets treated like shit by newcomers pissed that one has deleted their page, trolls pissed that one has blocked them, POV pushers pissed that one has protected their page, users insistent that one is just the same as them and does not have any greater level of trust and should never be given any level of slack, users convinced that one is abusing one's powers, and "valued contributors" insistent that one does not matter and should go to hell because they do so much more and are so much more important to the encyclopedia.
We should put this on a plaque and hand it out to every new admin with their mop, bucket, and hazmat suit.