On 9/17/07, Rich Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
Skyring wrote:
On 9/11/07, Armed Blowfish diodontida.armata@googlemail.com wrote:
But anyway, have you noticed how people, often banned people, who feel hurt by Wikipaedia tend to start 'behaving badly' *as a reaction* to getting hurt by Wikipaedia?
Basic game theory. You give the other guy a chance, and thereafter
treat
them as they treat you. Things can rapidly spiral out of control, but of course, if you are a WP admin, you have the control and a support
community.
My expectations of Wikipedia admins go far beyond giving the other guy a chance, then treating them as they treat you. That sounds like the minimum you should expect from anyone you meet. Wikipedia admins should be held to a higher standard.
Well, yeah, that'd be nice. Some wikiadmins are superb people. And some,
well, let's just say that they wouldn't make it past RfA a second time.
Realistically, we have no idea who some of our admins are. Just a screen name. Some of them may be banned users.
It's the way the system works. It's not perfect. It's not the way you'd set things up if you were starting from scratch. But it works.