On 2/9/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 2/9/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 2/9/07 3:44 PM, geni at geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Šyou end up with resentment against the lucky ones.
After reading all of the posts on the provocatively-named subject "Admin Burnout", I am hard pressed to see anything "lucky" about being "chosen"
as
one. How on earth would you go about persuading someone to take this on?
The
whole day's posts have spoken about nothing but the negative side of the job; are there any advantages - or are you simply hoping there are
enough
masochists out there to fill the positions?
Marc Riddell
You can see deleted edits you can speedy stuff without tagging and you can block without going through AIV. You can edit protected templates without messing around. reverting is less effort. Certian types of page moves are only posible for admins
On the less official side people tend to think twice before attacking you and you tend to get a free pass when it comes to being trusted.
On the against policy but can be done anyway if you are smart. You can:
Speedy rather than prod Block new users who are being anoying
Having admin powers is convenient from an editing perspective, especially the ability to move pages and see deleted edits.
There are a lot of reasons not to give people admin powers after just 50 edits. I'm guessing that one of them is copyright. Right now there are a lot of deleted copyvios. If anyone who registers (just about) has access to those copyvios, then aren't we back to publishing the copyvios? It would also create a lot more need for oversight - we'd be opening up a huge amount of personal information to the public.
Then, of course, there's the damage an admin can do. Willy on Wheels can sit tight for 50 edits. Fifty edits with a sleeper account and you can put all the penises you want on the main page. A dozen sleeper accounts and a dynamics IP, and you could really have fun. And while I won't go into details per WP:BEANS, there are a lot of ways that an admin can do effectively irreversible damage.
While we probably need lots more admins, we don't need automatic admins.