charles matthews wrote:
Can you actually find an example of an admin behaving like that who hasn't been desysopped by ruling of the Arbitration Committee? I doubt it.
In fact we have probably not 'culled' enough admins, if one were to judge solely by management criteria. It is not done lightly. Also, we tend to assume admins act in good faith, and that if they get things wrong (happens) then it is reversible. That is not exactly accurate: but any admin not acting in good faith is probably a troubled person, not just a troubled admin. And mistakes alone don't justify a de-sysop.
Yes, I agree -- and that wasn't what I was trying to imply. One of the advantages of Wikipedia is that almost every action can be undone.
The part of my message referred to as 'behaving like that' (which you snipped) was quoting Molu describing admins acting in a power-hungry manner:
It's like "Now you know you made a mistake and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. I AM THE TYRANT MUHUHAHAHA!!!"
Cheers,
N.