Thomas Dalton wrote:
It's not a new idea. My main problem with it is that it reduces the trust the community has in admins as a whole. Admins can only do their job if the rest of the community lets them, and the rest of the community will only do that if they trust them. Having a way for people to get admin tools without the strict processes of RfA would diminish that trust and make the whole project unworkable.
To summarise: Adminship is not about being trustworthy, it's about being trusted.
I think you got this backwards. If the RfA process is so strict and everyone then "trusts" the people who are made admins, surely that makes it much easier for those admins to wreak havoc (whether intentional or not). Surely *that* makes the whole project more unworkable.
Adminship should not have anything to do with trust at all. Adminship should be synonymous with innocence. Not being allowed the admin tools should be a penalty, and a penalty should only be applied when someone does something wrong, no sooner.
Timwi