From: Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:14:58 -0800 (PST) To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Mediators (Re:Cmahan)
--- Adam [name omitted for privacy reasons] <[name omitted for privacy reasons]@msn.com> wrote:
*Mediator can say: You stay in your corner and you in yours, otherwise I'll go get Dwarf-Lord Jimbo
**But we can all do this anyways. Ive got Jimbo's email in my address book -- we could all spam Jimbo all day long. Why do we need to create an official "super-sysop" position? >
But do we?
And is the threat pretty hollow since, like you said, jimbo could be spammed by all of us?
But if there are 3 or 4 "Mediators" who can temp-ban you until Jimbo comes around to review, then edit-warmongers might sit up and take notice, knowing these are people whom Jimbo will listen to attentively, having himself appointed them?
===== Christopher Mahan
Heh, maybe he's not fool enough to do that.
Fred