On 2/4/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/4/06, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
And how exactly are the members of the CVU
getting
their enjoyment? Is it by playing out paramilitary fantasies of
protecting the precious Wikipedia from hordes of barbarians? Because
that's what the name implies.
Perhaps. It seems to be a fairly common desire on the internet. On
wikipedia the desire appears to have been channeled into something
useful.
I'm sorry, but for what I would hope are obvious reasons I think we
should discourage people from playing out their paramilitary fantasies
at Wikipedia.
In fact, there should be a strong social opprobrium associated with
such behavior.
When I say "automatic" I mean "automatic", not "pretty much
automatic".
So?
I think that getting adminship should be an automatic process.