On 2/16/07, Flame Viper <flameviper12(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
And the terrible thing about this is that nobody could stop it.
Normally,
when an edit war breaks out, a sysop is able to
descend from the clouds
and
settle things. When there is an abusive editor, a
sysop can rain holy
thunder upon him.
They do that whenever they can come up with the slightest excuse, let
alone
for "abusive editors."
One must consider that part of the problem of our crop of current abusive
administrators may be due to burnout and overstress, and your suggestions
to
expand the admin pool have merit, but the fact remains that many of the
administrator tools are way too easy to abuse, and get abused on a regular
basis.
Adminship is a big deal, these days. Else so many of them wouldn't be so
dead-set on never having any review of their own actions.
Parker
That's correct, and being afraid of having your own actions reviewed makes
you dead set against having anyone else's actions reviewed: because if it's
so easy to review administrator actions, your might come under the
microscope next. So the culture protects what it creates, and makes it
impossible to correct its own mistakes.
KP