I didn't suggest making it harder to become an admin.
I suggested making it easier for more people to have "some" power, without lowering the bar for people to attain the "absolute" power an adminship now entails.
I'm also suggesting that without the burden of such powers, perhaps some of the more incivil admins might be able to take a load off, relax, and leave the really heavy stuff to those who could handle it better and without being incivil.
Parker
On 10/6/06, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/10/06, Parker Peters onmywayoutster@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. -- Oldak Quill (oldakquill@gmail.com) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l