Delirium wrote:
Matt Brown wrote:
On 4/20/06, Ben Lowe ben.lowe@gmail.com wrote:
I still haven't heard a reason why admins shouldn't revert admin actions "at all" except that it's wheel-warring, which is a rather circular answer (fitting, I suppose for a wheel). So I suppose my response to "We shouldn't be undoing each other's admin actions at all" is that we also shouldn't be making any mistakes at all. But it happens, and so should be able to unhappen.
My preferred policy change would not be 'we shouldn't ever undo admin actions' but rather 'we shouldn't undo admin actions instantly and without discussion'.
Very few things are so, so critical that there isn't time to discuss.
A correlary ought to be: We shouldn't *do* admin actions instantly and without discussion, for the same reason.
In many cases that's just not practical. There's always a lot of uncontroversial routine cleanup jobs that need doing. Full discussion of these is tantamount to needing written permission from your wife each and every time you want to wash the dishes.
Ec