On 4/18/07, John Lee <johnleemk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
(You might dispute the assertion that this philosophy
will only let a tiny
amount of bad apples in, but I can't think of many, sorry, any bad apples
who didn't get in under our present Kafkaesque gauntlet at RfA that would
have gotten in under an RfA operating under the "no big deal" thinking I'm
advocating.)
Any thoughts on how the current "gauntlet culture" developed? One wild
guess might be that some of the current voters might have some time in
the past been "burned" by an admin who didn't have one or more of the
attributes they are looking for. One example would be someone who
spent a lot of time and effort writing an article just to have it
speedied by some admin with most of his edits in policy areas quoting
WP:THIS or WP:THAT. An admin with experience with a project would be
less likely to go decimate somebody else's project. (think webcomics)
In short, an admin with lots of experience writing "articles" would be
less likely to nuke somebody else's hard work. Just a guess.