On 06/10/06, Parker Peters
<onmywayoutster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Part of the problem I think with admins who get on power trips is
that one
day, they went from being an un-powerful little normal editor, to
the next
day being able to do all these amazing things. Imagine if you one
day woke
up with x-ray vision: your first thought would probably be to use
it on
your
hot next-door neighbor, wouldn't it?
It been traditional for Wikipedia to have as many admins as
possible without
laxing our barriers to adminship too much. I think this is from the
open
source "many eyes catch all the bugs" school of thinking. The
reason we are
able to do this is because, as someone has already mentioned, all
admin
actions are recorded and reversible.
I also do not think that making it harder to become an admin would
make some
admins more civil. Many of the most curt admins (perhaps read
"uncivil")
have been with us for a long time. Clearly, their curtness has
nothing to do
with your X-ray effect and is more related to a jaded outlook.
Also, people don't like change. The older
Admins are used to the old way of working.