On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:45:04 +1000 Mark Gallagher wrote:
Nonsense. Admins make calls all the time that are recognised by the community as necessary, but still make one unpopular with certain subsections nonetheless. RfAs are extraordinarily easy to stack, as opposers count for more than supporters and the wider community does not generally take an interest in them. Requests for adminship tend to involve only a very small subset of the community, who, fortunately, are usually considered sane (editcountitis notwithstanding); requests for confirmation will have all the problems of RfA, with the added drawback of being inhabited by trolls and idiots who are too concerned with advancing their own agendas to bother learning what admins do and why.
Why are you bringing vote stacking into this? That's a completely different issue. This is not about vote stacking.
I am not the only person who has noticed that, in your brief time on this list, you have rarely posted anything that could not be considered "nonsense". I would like to suggest you spend more time on Wikipedia, attempting to learn what we're about and how we work, before you try to instruct the Wikipedia Grannies in advanced egg-sucking procedures. The views of someone ignorant of Wikipedia procedures can be useful, at times; fresh eyes, etc., but at others it's damned annoying to see someone who doesn't know what he's talking about attempt to lecture us. Please, give it a rest, and fill your head instead of this list.
Thank you for your kind suggestions. You'll have to excuse me as I ignore them.
Molu
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On Tue, 30 May 2006 17:45:04 +1000 Mark Gallagher wrote:
Nonsense. Admins make calls all the time that are recognised by the community as necessary, but still make one unpopular with certain subsections nonetheless. RfAs are extraordinarily easy to stack, as opposers count for more than supporters and the wider community does not generally take an interest in them. Requests for adminship tend to involve only a very small subset of the community, who, fortunately, are usually considered sane (editcountitis notwithstanding); requests for confirmation will have all the problems of RfA, with the added drawback of being inhabited by trolls and idiots who are too concerned with advancing their own agendas to bother learning what admins do and why.
Why are you bringing vote stacking into this? That's a completely different issue. This is not about vote stacking.
Surprisingly, it is. Vote stacking is the difference between the theoretical brilliance that re-confirmation RfAs claim and the practical awfulness they cause.
I am not the only person who has noticed that, in your brief time on this list, you have rarely posted anything that could not be considered "nonsense". I would like to suggest you spend more time on Wikipedia, attempting to learn what we're about and how we work, before you try to instruct the Wikipedia Grannies in advanced egg-sucking procedures. The views of someone ignorant of Wikipedia procedures can be useful, at times; fresh eyes, etc., but at others it's damned annoying to see someone who doesn't know what he's talking about attempt to lecture us. Please, give it a rest, and fill your head instead of this list.
Thank you for your kind suggestions. You'll have to excuse me as I ignore them.
Well, fair enough, considering the way I phrased them.