--- Anthere anthere6@yahoo.com wrote:
Nod. Recently, many people were proposed to be sysops. They were mostly sold the "trust" display, rather than what syosp really is (a police force). The more sysops there are, the less trust will be granted to non sysops, imho.
This said, I deeply thank those who have expressed their trust in me :-)
I guess a sysop is more like a judge. I don't think it is fair to say that sysops are a police force. Being a policeman (or woman) implies doing something compulsively, without consent, as opposed to someone more like a judge, who consents all involved parties as well as the rules/laws, the previous precedents, and the jury (in this case the Wikipedia community). A judge isn't required to give punishment. If he wants, he can assign guilt without punishment, or even say the defendant is completely innocent of any crime and ignore the case. This is often frowned upon by the people in the jurisdiction, so there are retrials (except without the technicality that a procedural error must have been committed; that can be found in almost every case). Some may say that it is the judge's responsibility to punish people in all cases without consent or explicit reason, as the policemen (agressive sysops) try to do, but the judges know that they are better than that. They are not just here to punish, they are here to judge.
That metaphor was a little off what I originally meant to say, but now it is my new philosophy because I like the metaphor so much :-) --LittleDan
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