On 6/4/06, Lord Voldemort lordbishopvoldemort@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/4/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Non admins are becomeing increaseingly powerless.
Funny you should see it as power v. no power. Not being an admin affects your ability to write an encyclopedia in the most of miniscule ways. Just write the encyclopedia. Any "power" that you speak of is ridiculous. All this other crap happening... not writing an encyclopedia. Being an admin shouldn't really matter to people.
It has no impact on editing articles. I for one have a goal of spending a majority of my WP time doing that. I often fail 8-( Though, to be fair, checking articles on my watchlist for updates is a big part of the non-adding-material time.
I care about how other people are editing articles, and in some cases how people are responding to what other people edit in articles and in secondary discussions. For the most part, having some history of the situation and how policy has evolved, and knowing where to look for things, has been the hard part. Not having admin bit set doesn't affect my ability to put my two cents in on any of the discussions I have cared about.
There are a few persistent vandals who have wandered by pages I care about and I would have blocked if I could, but the people doing automated checks are generally responding a lot faster than I do with reverts and warnings on talk pages, so presumably they're more effective than I could be with blocking anyways, since I don't have time to sit and monitor in realtime during the day. Bravo to those writing the software.
I can recall once that someone called me on "But you're not even an admin", followed by them being dogpiled by several other people in the discussion including several admins. So I can't even complain that the perception issue as a non-admin is really causing me any issues.