On 2/4/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
On 2/3/06, Jay Converse
<supermo0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/3/06, The Cunctator
<cunctator(a)gmail.com> wrote:
More (and automatic) admins, I say.
This is
the easiest, fastest, most efficient, least work-intensive method...
of dismantling Wikipedia from the inside out.
I'd say a good portion of our vandals are kids who have nothing better to
do. This is the same kind of kid who, from experience with forums, and
various other free forms of online entertainment, will perform the bare
minimum of actual work necessary to get whatever power, MP3, level they
want.
If you tell people they need to browse 6 months and get 1000 edits and they
will be automatically admin'd, you will see people adding content to
articles one word at a time, making meaningless edits to pages over and over
again, and doing that until they hit 1001, then sit around until 6 months
have passed up. Then they'll go nuts using their admin powers in incredibly
new and damaging ways.
Wow, you have not only a minimum faith in the good nature of your
fellow man, a lot of faith in their lack of anything better to do.
You'd be surprised how much time some people have on their hands, and
how completely and utterly nuts some people are.
Actually, I wouldn't. Believe me, I know kooky. Most people aren't.
Automatic adminship is NOT the way to go. Absolutely
not. To be honest, I
don't think we need to be admitting admins at the rate that we are. Hell,
RfA pretty much is an automatic approval process at this point anyway, and
I've seen infrequent complaints that some admins getting through aren't
quite stable. Just imagine what would happen if we put adminship in the
hands of, essentially, everyone.
Oh, lordy! The unwashed masses! Quick, defend the citadel. Being an
admin really ain't that amazing.
Isn't it? There are already quite a few admins who block users with the
minimum of warnings, using obscure block messages, don't have an email
address set, and won't respond to what other users are saying.
Now please, stop being disingenious and get back to whatever it is on
Wikipedia that you're good at.
Hey, now. Maybe I haven't been completely polite but I haven't been
rude to you. I'm not being disingenuous -- I quite honestly think
Wikipedia would be better off if the process for becoming an admin was
not managed by people. Or at least managed by people a lot less. The
process for becoming an admin (or rather, getting admin-type powers)
should be a lot more streamlined and automatic.
I'm good at pretty much everything, by the way. Well, my French sucks.
But it once wasn't that bad... and, okay, my tennis swing needs work,
and you wouldn't want me performing open-heart surgery. But I make a
mean quiche!