James D. Forrester wrote:
On Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:10 PM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
If being an administrator is no big deal then removing that status should be no big deal as well.
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Getting to be a sysop is "no big deal" because it just means that you've gained our trust, and almost everyone in the world could probably do that, if they wished to do so. Thus, by removing sysop status means telling the target that they have failed to live up to this oh-so-easy thing. It is, in fact, an absolutely massive thing to do.
I can't see how this isn't absolutely obvious to everyone, really - perhaps they live in non-Euclidian spaces? :-)
And I was under the impression that the Wiki had done the same thing to encyclopedias that Lobachevsky had done to Euclidean space. :-)
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