Puppy wrote:
Perhaps the administrators are selected because they are the type to uphold the policies, rather than rail against them. Just a thought.
I wonder whether you posted this in order to defend the admins or to defend the complaining newbies. It could be interpreted both ways. It could be interpreted to mean "the administrators are selected to be those who are true to the principles that we believe underlie a good, harmonic community" (thereby defending the admins), or it could be interpreted to mean "the administrators are selected to be those who will take sides with the established ways of the community, thereby encouraging the formation of a clique or cabal" (thus defending the complaining newbie).
Either way, however, this is irrelevant to the thread. My original posting was not about policies. The spirit of the policies is very different from the reality of admins' actual behaviour in practice. This has been observed and stated on this mailing list numerous times, even by admins. This is about the actual behaviour in practice. My observation on this mailing list is that the actual behaviour in practice causes a large amount of editors to become disgruntled.
Timwi