On 21/02/07, Parker Peters <parkerpeters1002(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If Adminship were not a big deal, then losing
adminship would not be a big
deal.
Nonsense. It's amazing (and, frankly, mystifying) to me how often this
awfully poor logical conclusion comes up.
"Being a sysop is not a big thing, anyone can become one" is
equivalent to saying "If you are judged unable to become a sysop,
then, wow, you really must be two nuts short of a bolt".
The corollary is that if you do have your sysop bit removed, you are
now being accused of, indeed, having a shortage of bolt-fasteners.
If we did hold sysops to some impossibly high standard - and, it
should be pointed out, I personally see nothing wrong, and a great
deal right, with holding Arbitrators and Stewards to this level, for
instance - then, yes, being desysoped would not be such a big thing
because people would fail the test all the time. But we don't, so it
is, because they don't. See?
[Sorry for being annoyed at yet another faulty repetition of illogic.]
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
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