Conrad Dunkerson wrote:
There are admins who are routinely incivil, make personal attacks on a regular basis, and thumb their noses at consensus... and that IS damaging Wikipedia.
Give some examples? File an arbcom case?
Look around at your fellow admins from time to time and ask yourself... is there ANY way this person could pass an RFA at this point? If the answer is 'no' then the de facto situation is that a person who does NOT have the support or respect of the community has powers which are only supposed to be held by those who DO... and that inherently breeds disruption and resentment and ongoing damage to Wikipedia as a whole.
I think it would be reasonable to have some sort of process other than ArbCom whereby admins are from time to time or upon particular circumstances renominated for adminship. The danger, of course, is that such a process could be used by trolls as a hammer against some of our more active admins. I can see endless repeats of renominations for adminship every time an admin does something sensible but bold.
That seems worse than whatever problems we may have now.
--Jimbo