On 7/9/07, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
On a slightly more serious note, there does seem to be more of an atmosphere recently of "tie the admins up with red tape".
Not remotely. Admins have gained significantly increased powers over the last two years.
This business of "blocks shall be preventative rather than punitive", for example.
Eh old school. Dates from the days when admins were more meant to be enforcers of what the community decided (and the community understanding the potential for abuse of power decided to limited what admins could do to a fairly narrow set of conditions) rather than doing whatever their "common sense" told them to do.
Quite apart from the distinct echoes of Monty Python [1], who are you going to block in a preventative manner other than some clown who has been acting the goat, and how is that not punitive?
There seems to be a gang of people willing to jump into a thread on WP:ANI cudgelling any admin who makes themself available, and I don't like it.
There appear to be a bunch of admins who have forgotten where power in the project is meant to come from and I don't like that.