On 6/4/06, Lord Voldemort <lordbishopvoldemort(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/4/06, geni <geniice(a)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.
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-george william herbert
gherbert(a)retro.com / george.herbert(a)gmail.com