Sam Blacketer wrote:
On 11/27/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
If an administrator were to block someone with the explanation "I ran this by some people on an IRC channel and they okayed it, but I can't tell you who or where or why", that would quite rightly result in a furore. "Some people on an IRC channel" don't have any authority to okay anything
No, they don't. Administrators are individually responsible for each and every administrative action they take. But I don't see how that is contradicted by what happened here: Durova was responsible for the block of !!, and she has been held to account for it. Precisely no-one appears to be arguing that Durova's responsibility is diminished because she ran it by a select group before taking action; even if that group had all supported the proposed action, it would still have been the responsibility of whoever performed the block.
Sure, an admin is responble for his or her actions, but I don't agree with making Durova a scapegoat for a much bigger problem.
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