Ray Saintonge wrote:
Parker Peters wrote:
The problem admins may be in the minority. They
may not be.
This is one place where your arguments seem to go off the rails. I
think that the vast majority of admins keep away from all the
contentious issues. They are content to narrowly restrict their edits
to what may relate to one WikiProject.
I tend to agree with you on this - the vast majority do go unnoticed.
The problem children are the ones who repeatedly do the wrong thing, and
never realize it because they're rewarded for their efforts. With no
realistic dispute resolution process in place, and with the worst of the
bunch being applauded when they act out of line because they have enough
buddies to back 'em up, there's no recourse.
This is ongoing, it's not anything new or recent. There may not be a
cabal, but there's something.
I prefer remedial actions rather than punitive. The
part-time dicks are
probably the ones that would be most amenable to a regime of strict but
fair enforcement of a code for admin behaviour.
Yeah, but the part-time dicks aren't the problem.
-Jeff