On 9/30/05, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Turley wrote:
Pure admin deletion turns the admin group from a service organization to a cabal that you must belong to in order to perform certain actions.
You don't think that's the case now? You have to be an admin to delete articles, block people, or use rollback. Yet admins are not viewed as a "cabal" because of this.
The difference is that now, admins are supposed to serve the consensus of the editing public at large and not their own interest. Pure admin deletion changes them into a group of superusers at large. The only problem with the current adminship model is that some admins don't realize or accept that their responsibilities are a service responsibility and not a blind power grant. Pure admin deletion promotes this latter model of thought when in fact, it is the only real problem in the system.
-- Michael Turley User:Unfocused