Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 01:35 PM 5/31/2010, Charles Matthews wrote:
Actually, most people who don't apply as an
admin just don't apply.
With ten million registered editors and a handful of RfAs, that's
obvious.
They
don't generate "evidence" one way or another. It is a perfectly sensible
attitude for a well-adjusted Wikipedian getting on with article work not
to want to be involved in admin work.
Sure. However, there is a minority who are *not* "well-adjusted" who
would seek adminship for personal power.
Yes, and the first required quality for
being given such power is not to
want it. Etc. But you were the one talking about getting painted into a
corner. The problem, as I have defined it, is of negative voting. The
sheer suspicion of those who apparently want the mop-and-bucket. (And
anyway, I obviously was using "well-adjusted" in the sense of "round peg
in a round hole", not as a comment on anything else.)
Charles