Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
At 01:35 PM 5/31/2010, Charles Matthews wrote:
Actually, most people who don't apply as an admin just don't apply.
With ten million registered editors and a handful of RfAs, that's obvious.
They don't generate "evidence" one way or another. It is a perfectly sensible attitude for a well-adjusted Wikipedian getting on with article work not to want to be involved in admin work.
Sure. However, there is a minority who are *not* "well-adjusted" who would seek adminship for personal power.
Yes, and the first required quality for being given such power is not to want it. Etc. But you were the one talking about getting painted into a corner. The problem, as I have defined it, is of negative voting. The sheer suspicion of those who apparently want the mop-and-bucket. (And anyway, I obviously was using "well-adjusted" in the sense of "round peg in a round hole", not as a comment on anything else.)
Charles