--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
I think your worries are just as sensible as mine ;-)
I worry about making too much of a hierarchy. We already have...
An Elite:
- Dictator-for-life: Jimbo Wales (controls URLs,
bandwidth, machines; sets policy)
- Developers: can delete or alter any page, any
time, without a trace! same for blocking, promoting, renaming users)
- Sysops: can delete pages or protect them from the
lower classes; can block IP's.
A Lower-class:
- Signed-in users - cannot be blocked, except by a
developer
- Anonymous (IP) users - can be blocked by any sysop
This looks to me like 5 levels of power. Some people don't like us having that many levels. Some people profess to trust those in the top 2 levels (the Gang of Five); some make no such profession of trust.
Although I worry about the long-term future of Wikipedia, so far it has weathered all storms. (Ah, that's easy for you to say, "Uncle Ed", sitting in your ivory tower... Yeah, you have a point...)
Ed Poor
Mav proposition : a 6 level of power, depending on each wikipedia decision
An Elite:
- Dictator-for-life: Jimbo Wales (controls URLs,
bandwidth, machines; sets policy)
- Developers: can delete or alter any page, any
time, without a trace! same for blocking, promoting, renaming users)
- Upper sysops: can delete pages or protect them
from the lower classes; can see everyone IP's, block IP's of anyone.
La bourgeoisie
- Lowers sysops: can delete pages or protect them
from the lower classes; can block IP's of anonymous only. Don't see users IP.
A Lower-class:
- Signed-in users - cannot be blocked, except by a
developer
- Anonymous (IP) users - can be blocked by any sysop
Toby proposition
An Elite:
- Dictator-for-life: Jimbo Wales (controls URLs,
bandwidth, machines; sets policy)
- Developers: can delete or alter any page, any
time, without a trace! same for blocking, promoting, renaming users)
- Sysops: can delete pages or protect them from the
lower classes; can see everyone IP's, block IP's of anyone.
A Lower-class:
- Signed-in users and anonymous - can see everyone
IP's. Can be blocked by any sysop.
Very lower class, lower class or lower sysop (depending on the place and my mood)
Here, lower class
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