On 6/18/07, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/06/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/17/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/16/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/16/07, James Farrar james.farrar@gmail.com wrote:
So she naturally did the instinctive thing when under attack, which is to shoot back.
If his/her "instinctive thing" when asked a question by a fellow admin is to "shoot back," s/he ought not be an admin. Whichever way you look at it, the response was not good, and quite a few people opposed on that basis alone.
I'll save this one for requoting in the future. Admins do shoot back, all of the time, they escalate things, the dance around direct questions leading to needless chatter.
When someone shoots back during their RfA, when you can expect them to be on their best behavior, then it's a big problem.
Unless, of course, she thought the RFA was dead in the water, so she might as well go down swinging.
There was no reason to assume that at all, and it's not a very promising response for someone trying to gain a position of trust.