Wow, look at all these messages. I don't have time to read them all, so I'll probably be saying more of the same, but here my perspective on this.
Being an admin is not what it is made out to be. People think, once you are an admin, you get a big office on the top floor with a massage chair. This is not the case, especially for the more hardworking ones like (in my opinion) Alkivar and others. The situation is that we do something like clear out hundreds of pages in CAT:CSD, and instead of getting support and encouragement for doing a task that's a pain in the ass, we get yelled at by everyone. Whether we delete pages, or even remove CSD tags, we get harassed, threatened, and yelled at, sometimes by established editors who know better.
My point? The hardworking admins who help clear the backlogs and do janitorial work get zilch, while the rest go about their daily business without being worried whether some pissed off lunatic is going to call them while they're at work and frighten them.
The close-knit community of yesterday is gone, and I want it back. Less bitching, more supporting.
On 2/9/07, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
geni wrote:
Editors are people. Being blocked hurts. Haveing your work deleted
hurts.
Think about this a bit more. Being blocked hurts. Is it so much of a stretch of imagination to realise that (for some if not most people) being excluded from adminship also hurts? It is, after all, functionally the same as being "blocked" from the extra features.
People probably don't realise this readily because it's a qualitatively different kind of hurting -- it's not a singular event like being blocked or a page being deleted, which is like a stab in the chest which may (or may not) heal. This is different; it's more like a nagging headache that doesn't go away.
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