On 2/9/07, Keitei nihthraefn@gmail.com wrote:
I don't suppose it has anything to do with the, "We are the priests; you are the janitors. Now shovel our crap." mindset.
Never really run across that one.
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,
Their feelings can be understood although in some cases their behaviour can be kinda cute.
trolls pissed that one has blocked them, POV pushers pissed that one has protected their page,
These form a fairly minor part of admin tasks. the number of pages protected per month to stop edit waring is pretty low.
users insistent that one is just the same as them and does not have any greater level of trust
That was the general theory.
and should never be given any level of slack, users convinced that one is abusing one's powers,
Fairly easy to deal with.
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.
Generaly there are few reasons to have dealings with such users beyond those required by policy.