2009/2/12 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
In other words if you're worried about the admin body as a whole, you wouldn't ask the question about "how can I get rid of X?" but "is there any control of the admins as a whole?" We currrently have desysopping that goes on a "worst-case" basis rather than an "average-case" basis, and if you change that you are likely to get more decisions taken, but for worse reasons. I don't think the actual quality of admins is anything like as low as the argument for mass reconfirmation would suggest.
Indeed. As I suggested, a small amount of enforcement of good behaviour amongst the admins by the ArbCom will go a long way to getting all admins to behave in a more fitting manner. As Lar pointed out, the admin bit is so much of "no big deal" that people will do anything not to lose it.
- d.