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.