On May 8, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
Because
then the judges (closing admins) have discretionary power,
and in that situation, decisions are made by admin aristocracy, not
consensus.
Consensus already requires interpretation by admins, who have
discretinary power to ignore it.
That power is strictly limited to upholding policy and Office
actions. There's a difference between admins interpreting consensus,
and abandoning consensus while delegating decision-making power to
admins alone. The latter is utterly unacceptable.
As you point out, when consensus conflicts with policy, admins should
upload policy. Classic example, 20 people "vote" to maintain the
copyvio image...a sensible admin ignores them.
Steve