On 2/9/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 2/9/07 3:44 PM, geni at geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Šyou end up with resentment against the lucky ones.
After reading all of the posts on the provocatively-named subject "Admin Burnout", I am hard pressed to see anything "lucky" about being "chosen" as one. How on earth would you go about persuading someone to take this on? The whole day's posts have spoken about nothing but the negative side of the job; are there any advantages - or are you simply hoping there are enough masochists out there to fill the positions?
Marc Riddell
You can see deleted edits you can speedy stuff without tagging and you can block without going through AIV. You can edit protected templates without messing around. reverting is less effort. Certian types of page moves are only posible for admins
On the less official side people tend to think twice before attacking you and you tend to get a free pass when it comes to being trusted.
On the against policy but can be done anyway if you are smart. You can:
Speedy rather than prod Block new users who are being anoying