On 1/4/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Time for hiercharchies of admins? Give "rollback" powers to anyone with half a clue. Save temporary block powers for people with a whole clue. Save permanent block/ban powers for people with demonstrated good judgement, preferably on the previous levels.
Not to make it a prestige thing, of course...
Steve
You could always give rollback, delete, undelete, protect and unprotect powers to everyone, at least everyone with more than X edits.
Of course that would require banning users that abuse that power, which I suppose is the real problem with adminship too: no one is stepping up and removing the powers when they are abused.
The whole theory that adminship "should be no big deal" is based on the fact that admins have no authority and that adminship can be taken away. The arb committee is what's really broken. Actually, I'd say the arb committee never worked all that well in the first place.
Anthony