G'day John,
No big deal, remember? Deopping should be as easy as
opping, IMO.
Anyway, I think a lot of admins (including myself) have misused rollback
at one time or another, or just misclicked (due to impulse?). I support
hitting people who misuse rollback on the head with a cluestick, but
unless the admin refuses to heed the advice, I'm not sure deopping would
be the right thing. (Though it's always up to the community.) This is
If nothing else, if 'twere easier to deop then it would be easier to op,
and perhaps adminship would return to "no big deal" status (an ancient
creature that I'm assured has indeed existed in years gone past ...
looking at old RfAs, it's probably right: "I'd like to be an admin,
please" "sure thing" etc.).
As one who has misclicked rollback more than once, I sympathise with "I
didn't mean to rv!". However, accidental rollbacks tend to be easy to
recognise and fix by the offending admin, I think, so he should be doing
that rather than making excuses.
also why I think removing rolled back edits from the
page history is a
*bad thing*. Just because it's no longer in the article doesn't make a
particular edit bad. In addition, as others have noted, we'll lose
history of vandalism and disputes. (Although it would be funny to see a
user talk littered with {{test5}}s but nothing in
[[Special:Contributions]].)
I have seen it (well, near enough): a user continually creating hoax
articles or attack pages that were speedied gets a couple thousand
warnings, is eventually indef blocked (or whatever), I check the
contribs ... it's blank ...
--
Mark Gallagher
"What? I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse
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