On 4/24/06, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/23/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/24/06, slimvirgin@gmail.com slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know who this was directed at, but it's exactly the attitude that's causing a problem.
Really? Most historical problems with "wheel wars" have been due to the problem that it is tricky to block an admin who doesn't want to be blocked.
I don't know what that means.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=block&use...
That is a real wheel war.
The wheel war problem is caused by people taking it upon themselves
to undo other >people's admin actions, simply because they disagree with them.
I can't offhand think of any other reason to undo them. However that doesn't cause wheel wars. The wheel war only gets going when the person who has had their admin action undone tries to get it redone by brute force.
As Kate said, it often boils down to an ego problem, the presumption of knowing better.
Of course. And yet you object to my point where I show what rejecting all that ego stuff means.
You can strongly disagree with an admin action, but at the same time realize that perhaps the original admin knows more about the situation than you do; or perhaps knows just as much but has better judgment in this case; or perhaps neither of these, and you'll just have to agree to differ.
Either the action is pulled or it is not. Agreeing to differ makes no sense in this context.
Just as we can't always have our own way when editing, we also can't always have our own way when adminning.
And yet you blame the person who is preventing someone from haveing their own way.
-- geni