On 9/11/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Unless that person is a friend of someone with oversight power.
I've just gone through the list and, personally, I trust the oversighters. I don't think any of them would abuse their power just to help a friend.
Whether or not what they did was an abuse of power is debatable, but there have been a number of instances of evidence of misbehavior of admins being oversighted.