On 23/04/07, Cascadia cascadia@privatenoc.com wrote:
Ryulong then left, leaving his actions in place and having other admins clean up the mess.
Perhaps we could interject a little detail here.
He made the blocks. He posted that he had done so to the admin noticeboard, to make it public, and notified the relevant discussion page. Then he left, to go to a meeting.
He "left" for *four and a half hours*. Two hundred and seventy-six minutes. Within two hours the matter had been discussed and they had all been unblocked, with multiple people leaving him explanatory messages. I'm failing to see how this is gross negligence of duty - he did what he was doing, he notified the appropriate places for people to fix it if they felt he'd done wrong, then he went to do some work.
You seem to be demanding that editors don't do anything that might be contentious if they're going offline shortly. After all, someone might kick up a fuss and you'd have to resolve it, but oh noes! you might not be around until later! the world will collapse without immediate solutions!