Christopher Mahan wrote:
two sysops go on an edit war. against each other. They
lock the page,
to no avail because the other can still edit it. Then one bans the
other other's IP. The other retaliates by blocking the account. The
last then goes to Jimbo (hard to stop email) and both get
permantently banned?
Fun to contemplate but pretty unlikely. I would certainly pull sysop
privileges because one of the fundamental rules of the sysop
priesthood is "never in a fight". Another is "don't ban signed in
users without yet another agonizing and incredibly annoying discussion
on the mailing list in which Jimbo waits too long to decide".
I try hard to send out a vibe of: co-operation, not competition. A
vibe of production, not destruction. A vibe of relaxation and fun,
not argumentation. Most of the sysops are in full agreemet with that.
--Jimbo