I know these are a lot of submissions in a row, but hopefully nobody feels I'm wasting all our time. As long as everyone is giving their hare-brained ideas about fixing The Problem, here's my equally-retarded nonsensical flailing:
Advocate Position ================= The advocate position stands in opposition to the tyranny of sysops. The advocates' job is to prevent runaway abuse of sysop authority.
Likely advocate powers might include:
o Unilateral Unban (to mirror sysop unilateral temporary ban) o Page Unprotect (to be a subset of sysop page prot/unprot) o Audit Functions (these aren't anywhere that I can see them except the clunky page histories. luckily I had the sense to comment my code so my exhibits in my defense here were easy to pick out. plus I haven't been rabidly vandalizing as some would suggest.)
Procedure for nomination or designation of advocates:
yadda yadda yadda, it's all pretty useless after this point because another person has to be involved and then all bets are off, good luck.
Codie Vickers.