Phil Sandifer write:
On Sep 15, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Steve Summit wrote:
Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
...lets not judge people *before they've actually done something wrong*, ok?
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but we're actually -- or at any rate some sectors of the project are -- very very good at doing exactly that. For example, there was that big noisy case a week or two ago where a sysop was summarily desysopped and/or banned for saying he was thinking of handing out some deleted article text.
Actually, the big thing there was that he suggested he'd provide some deleted article text that contained personal information to a bunch of banned trolls, without adequately researching the situation first.
Yeah, that's about the way I remembered it. My point was that he said "I'm thinking of doing <horrible thing>", or "I'm going to do <horrible thing>", and instead of saying "No, you shouldn't do that" or "No, you shouldn't do that, or else we'll de-admin you", we just cut to the chase and de-adminned him. (As I understood it. No, I didn't research it thoroughly, because I don't have time for that, just as you don't have time for bureaucracy! :-) )