On 5/30/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/30/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
Or, worse, they're so clueful it's their second or third admin account.
Evidence or drop the accusation.
That's exactly right. It used to be more than enough to have 1,000 edits, so long as they were decent edits; now it's rarely enough, but no one looks at quality. What quality is there to look at when you're staring at thousands of vandalism reverts?
I think the people decided the requirement for one FA was unreasonable.
We know that the easy way to build up a sockpuppet account fast is to do CVU and vote in AfDs. So what do we do? We promote vandal fighters whose only project space edits are AfDs. I take the point that we can't become paranoid, but complacency's no good either.
Because guess which group of people most need admin powers?
When people ask me now what they need to do to prepare for adminship, I invariably have to tell them to do the vandalism thing, which they shouldn't have to if they're mature candidates and good writers. Then they risk not getting promoted because they blocked a vandal without using the right tags ...
That would be quite impressive. Generally it is quite hard to block people before being given an admin bit.
-- geni
Geni has the right point here. Article-writers simply don't need the admin tools ass much. ~~~~