"David Alexander Russell" wrote
Perhaps if Arbcom was more willing to desysop admins who annoy the community, that would solve the problem.
We are certainly willing to de-sysop those who annoy us. Not the same thing of course. But I think it would be a bad thing if admins went in fear of vocal minorities, who claim on occasion to speak for 'the community'.
I suspect that as time goes on a small proportion of admins will have their mops and buckets retired. This currently only happens in egregious cases of forfeit of confidence. The admin group is now very large. There is probably 1% or so who attract attention for their _recurrent_ questionable use of the powers. Mistakes are made, more widely than that, but it's part of the ArbCom's mission to be rather sparing in the use of its powers, and honest errors are part of life in a volunteer organisation.
Charles