On 2/10/07, Rich Holton richholton@gmail.com wrote:
Geni,
What do you see as the current issues in dealing with problem admins? Is it that it's necessary to go through a lengthy ArbCom process? Do you have any thoughts on how to improve?
-Rich
The problem is who do admins answer to on a day to day basis? And I mean de facto because de jure tends not to be very relevant in day to day matters.
Now editors answer to each other and admins. Do something silly and people will let you know.
Admins who do admins answer to. It is a long time since admins in any meaningful sense answered to the community in any meaningful sense and since any formal mechanism for doing so has serious bugs (think RFA on steroids) at this present time that appears broken beyond repair. What about other admins then? Problem is that going up against a fellow admin is risky it gets political fast and people cease to be objective. Nether the less I think if there is hope of making admins more accountable it is to find a way to make them answer to their fellow admins.