Joe Szilagyi wrote:
On 6/16/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
If being able to identify admins is that important, we should consider if the OTRS show-the-foundation-your-ID should be extended to normal admins.
An admin who is doing nothing wrong wound have nothing to hide from the Foundation. If they're editing from a situation however, where they shouldn't be--say, work conflict of interest, personal risk, extreme concerns for privacy--they they perhaps shouldn't be admins.
This is a fantastic suggestion, and to protect the Foundation from liability from people acting as it's agents, likely very overdue.
By what stretch of the imagination do you determine that a person acting as an admin on a project is acting as an agent of the Foundation. A very important distinction has always been made between the role of the Foundation and the role of the projects. Whatever the operating rules of RfA, and whether or not one agrees with those rules, the fact remains that admin appointments are made from the particular community, and not by the Foundation. Also becoming a sysop in any one community does not yet imply the right to be a sysop in any other of our several hundred communities.
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