Thomas Dalton wrote:
There are two flaws in your logic. First, if your adminship bit is removed, how do you "unblock" yourself? So no, you don't need an extra "super-admin" level to do de-sysoppings, you can just allow admins to do it. Second, your argument would equally apply to page deletion (you can publish any crap because if anyone deletes it you can just undelete it!), and yet admins can all delete *and* undelete and it still works (because they largely follow a certain policy).
So not only do you want to make everyone admins, you want to make everyone stewards? If anyone can desysop anyone else, then all it takes is one bot to remove everyone's sysop bits, and we have to wait for a dev, or steward, or whatever rank is high enough to avoid the bot's grasp, to revert it (which could be made quite easy, but it could be a significant wait until someone is available to do it). The cleanup of the damage the bot has done in this time (or, probably multiple bots to make it harder to undo) couldn't start until this dev had been found.
Whatever way you look at it, you're going to need a significant number of people with greater powers than everyone else, it's unavoidable.
See, this last conclusion of yours is a fallacy. All you (strictly) need to prevent this (very hypothetical) scenario you described is either enough admins so that there's always someone around to stop such a bot quickly enough, or a cap on the maximum number of blocks (i.e. desysoppings) that any one user can do in a fixed amount of time (let's say, one per hour).
Timwi