On 10/24/02 6:23 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
But, my dear Cunctator, we have already given one percent of the users power: Jimbo and the developers can ban anyone, even a signed-in user. Ordinary sysops, such as myself, can ban only an IP.
There are 40 sysops, out of about 200 to 300 regular contributors. So our Dear Leader and Dictator For Life -- Jimbo -- and his royal bodyguards -- are that one percent. Sysops are about 20%. It's a two-tier power hierarchy.
Just to clarify, there are 40 sysops, about 400 regular contributors, 4000 registered contributors, and many thousands more readers. I was considering the 4000 registered contributors the userbase, not the 400 regular contributors. In that calculation, the sysops are 1% and Jimbo .025%. I don't consider the developers as having the power to ban anyone, since they really really shouldn't.