On Jan 12, 2008 2:25 PM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
The responsibility is to use the powers correctly when you use them.
Right, I thought that after I wrote it. Still fits most closely with "licensure". You get a driver's license and your responsibility is to drive safely. You get a ham radio license and your responsibility is to follow those rules. You get a concealed weapons permit and your responsibility is to use weapons appropriately. Do volunteer [[special constable]]s generally have any assigned duties, or are they free to use their powers however they see fit? I'd guess it's probably the former.
Would "no obligations" be accurate? Not sure how to say it, but the point is you're not required to do anything additional. As Andrew said, "no admin is *obliged* to take any particular admin action".
whether we should have a practice of requiring admins to do a quota of the janitorial work is another matter.
Another matter from what? I thought that was exactly what we were discussing: "Admin tasks are performed when and if an admin chooses to do it. Admins are not robots and so cannot be mandated to do something. There are policies of course that try to limit some actions, but nothing that can force an action to be taken." Ignore the part about robots, and change "force" to "obligate", and that's what I was responding to.
i personally have thought it appropriate to do so.
It'd almost surely be more efficient. Think back to my comment about handing out mops and telling people to "clean stuff". That's essentially what's happening now, right?
Wasn't the volunteer coordinator hired precisely to work on this issue? Any progress yet? Am I misunderstanding the volunteer coordinator's job?