Erik Moeller wrote:
On 5/27/06, Will Sceptre Noble tintower@tintower.tk wrote:
I have to admit, that is disgusting. Especially sgrayban, who I can't believe thinks destroying someones career is ethical.
You have a bunch of people who tend to be somewhat socially difficult to begin with, add another bunch of people who are not just difficult but downright mental, and give them a single enemy to focus on. Witness what humanity is capable of and be glad that it's just a website on the Internet. "He's a member of group X, therefore common human decency no longer applies."
Unfortunately, being an active admin these days means that sooner or later, you're going to be the target of some abuse. It's almost like our anal criteria of adminship (x% edit summaries, >n% in namespace foo, etc.) have evolved to make sure that only those who are sufficiently die hard Wikipedians will be exposed to this ugly side of a large, open online community. Still, it saddens me greatly whenever a good user like Katefan0 gets trampled on, and I wish we could do more to help them.
A radical proposal for you all then:
Delink administrative actions from user accounts. Give admins access to a shared admin account, with a private log linking actions to the users who have done them, viewable only by other admins.