Allowing admins to sysop other editors is an enormous centralisation of power. It'd probably rival the block as the biggest power admins possess. And make the role even more political and even less enforcer of community decisions.
Cheers WilyD
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Jon scream@datascreamer.com wrote:
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Colleagues,
As some of you already know, I've undergone an RFA recently. Thats ok. No matter the result, I try to vote on some RFA's whenever I ask for the community do discuss me.
On the same token, I try to vote on some AFDs (or close some) whenever I submit an AFD.
As I read some of the RFAs ongoing, I discovered a trend. So I looked into the recent historical RFA votes. (Lets not get to wrapped around vote=!vote, for simplicity of this proposal/idea, I'll call all comments, discussions... votes)
I have discovered what appears to be a trend in clique mentality and power centralization. Also, I have discovered some crazy oppositions, for example "I view self noms a prima facia evidence of power hunger." This is among the craziest I've seen. Not that the editor is crazy, but the oppose is.
Here is my suggested solution:
Allow editors (those who have not already undergone RFA, desysopped under a cloud, and desysopped by Arbitration) to sysop after 2500 edits and 6 months on the project without any recent behavior related blocks. Permit the crats or admins to grant and take away adminship. If this idea has some support on the mailing list (with any suggested alterations) I think I might put up a policy page as I have done on IPBLOCKEXEMPT for discussion.
The advantages of such a system would eliminate power centralization, clique mentality, and some of these outrageous opposes.
Everyone here is an academic. We are building en encyclopedia.
Thoughts?
Best, Jon
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