On 5/28/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote: I'm not sold either, but the debate should perhaps be had. There are basically three broad options: 1. "The borg" - all admins by default act through the same account. It is possible, but with difficulty, to determine who performed which administrative act. - Major problems of accountability of course. 2. "Pseudonyms" - each admin has an account used exclusively for administrative actions. At his discretion, he may disclose this link. Problems - maintaining the secrecy, convincing users that accountability is maintained, users having no idea of the history of each admin (where they suddenly came from...) 3. As current - problems: targetability, admins having more sway than is reasonable when acting outside their role (eg, content disputes) etc. Comments and opinions pls.

1. "The borg" - all admins by default act through the same account. It is possible, but with difficulty, to determine who performed which administrative act. - Major problems of accountability of course.

On 5/28/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com> wrote: Are non-admin actions necessarily relevant? Is the fact that an admin spends all his time editing Pokemon articles relevant when he blocks someone for racist propaganda? These aren't rhetorical questions.

On 5/28/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa(a)gmail.com> wrote: Is that not problem not solved by a cut down "checkadmin" that tells you whether an admin has been involved in a given article? Steve

On 5/28/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes, if we allowed brute force accessing of it. Anyway I'm just brainstorming here. What if we had classes of admins that were "secret", but agreed not to involve themselves in edit disputes at all (eg, protecting pages, rolling back...) How can we reduce the likelihood of admins getting WR'd?

We can't really. All we can do is warn people what they are taking on. Some will be careful as to their idently others will be less concerned.

Create a new account start from scrach and make some styleistic changes to your writeing style and where you edit. Other than that probably not. Ultimately you either try to hide or you accept being out.