From: Timwi timwi@gmx.net
Rebecca wrote:
There is no fundamental reason not to apply soft security to adminship.
That it's unnecessary, for starters. What we have now works fine. Changing that creates a whole lot of security problems that we just don't need - particularly with no compelling reason to change in the first place.
You are asserting that "what we have now works fine" even though I have already mentioned numerous times why I think it does *not* work fine. I have provided what I think is a compelling reason to change in the first place.
Your argument boils down to this; it's not working fine because I think the bar is set too high.
The Open Directory Project continually hung an axe over people - and they left as a result, in droves. Let us not make the same mistake.
I suppose we're doing the other extreme (high bar for entry to adminship and even higher bar for getting "axed out" of adminship) - and we have rather few good admins as a result (500 out of 25500, less than 2%, isn't very much for something that's supposedly "no big deal"). That's the mistake on the other side of the spectrum...
Ah, but how many regularly active editors? Probably no more than 1000.
Jay.