On 27/02/2008, Chris Howie cdhowie@gmail.com wrote:
If you ask an admin why they did something and they say "I dunno, we agreed that it was the best thing" then you have every right to demand an explanation, which may be in the form of a chat log and it may just be a paraphrase, but either way you then have something to dispute. If they say "someone told me to do it" and cannot provide more than that then take it to RfC, MedCom, ArbCom, whatever.
It is also worth noting that admins who answer "we decided on IRC" when questioned get copiously cluebatted by other admins. It's considered an extremely poor justification. Although when you aren't sure about a decision it may be worth chatting to others for sanity checking, you are responsible for your actions as an admin, and should be able to justify them.
So if e.g. you sanity-checked on IRC before an action, you should probably sanity-check on ANI after the action and accept a reversal in good grace.
Same as with pictures tagged by BetacommandBot - the admin deleting is responsible for each and every deletion they make, and if the bot has been getting things wrong and an admin zaps pictures that shouldn't be zapped, then the admin deleting would be responsible for cleaning up after themselves.
- d.