Nick Wilkins wrote:
On 3/26/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com>
wrote:
I don't see any particular problem with that.
The Admins know what they
are doing.
... woah.
That's quite the statement. We've apparently come quite far from the idea
that adminship is no big deal. Not that I have a problem with that, per se,
but telling non-admins to trust "the Admins" with policy decisions is
something that seems a major departure from previous practice here.
We are talking about very rare cases. The particular case in question
is quite remarkable.
We have a choice: WP:OFFICE where actions are carried out by single
staff members or by me personally (which does not scale, and carries
with it enormous risks of bias), or relaxing just a little bit and
trusting the community of admins to oversee each other.
What is NOT a choice is keeping vicious crap up on the site while people
discuss it. There's no point to that.
--Jimbo