On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 12:39:58PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
There are plenty of admins (esp of the sort that are
glad to undertake
blocks but don't do much of the real grunt work like closing VFDs they
are uninterested in), we need to avoid the perception of misuse by
admins by enforcing a rule against administrative action against users
where the admin has had a history of dispute with the same unblinking
grind as we've used with 3rr.
Agreed.
If administrative access is supposed to be "no big deal", then it
mustn't be usable to get one's way in a dispute.
It would be much better if people who are in a dispute and happen to
have administrative access would just temporarily forget that they have
that access, so as not to give any impression of abusing it. In a
dispute, an administrator should do the same things that any other
experienced user would do -- including, if necessary, calling for some
other administrator to take action such as blocking an offender.
Admins who unblock themselves or take administrative
action against a
user they are in dispute with should be subject to a self-enforced
administrative suspension (which backed up by deadminship).
Deadmin? Isn't he that DC Comics character with the red suit and the
pale expression? :)
--
Karl A. Krueger <kkrueger(a)whoi.edu>