On Sunday 02 March 2008 18:56, David Gerard wrote:
The arbcom is quite happy to remove the admin bit from *bad* admins as needed, sometimes in a sudden midnight swoop.
Admins are servants of the community, not the Arbitrary Committee; thus, de-adminning is properly a community decision.
I'd say there's not a problem in practice removing the bit from actually bad admins (as opposed to, e.g., momentarily unpopular ones).
I realize we're not necessarily talking about my particular proposal here, but there's a reason why it requires that someone fail to meet the threshold for two consecutive weeks (and that number is, well, just a number--change it if need be; the principle remains the same).
The problem IMO is the sorta crappy ones. Which gets subjective. And it would obviously be better to lure them encouragingly toward non-crapness rather than just saying "Fail. *bang*"
It's not obvious to me. The good of the community comes before the feelings of admins. A reasonable argument can be made that it is indeed best for the community to maintain some stability in adminship and keep them happy, but it's certainly not self-evidently true.