I'm sorry Fennec, how does one follow logically from the other?
There seems no logical connection between the number of sysops and 'legions of trolls harrassing'.
There also seems to be no evidence that the kind of actions that sysops take actually reduces the level of disruption caused by troll feeding.
We certainly need better sysops, regardless of the number. Mark
--- Fennec Foxen fennec@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:01:43 -0700, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I would support any move to reduce the number of
sysops.
Wow. That's an awfully categorical statement. So would you support legions of trolls organizing themselves offsite then coming on Wikipedia and harrassing dozens of sysops until they quit out of frustration? ... that's rhetorical, of course.
We don't need fewer sysops- we need both more good sysops and more-good sysops. Perhaps we do need a more effective method to desysop certain controversial sysops, but consider how many people would categorically object to taking any sort of action of this nature. It's difficult enough to get rid of simple trolls (I'm not naming names here), and even cases such as that of Paul Vogel have taken quite some time to come to a head. Desysopping is likely to prove even less simple. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
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