On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:15:55 -0700, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know if I much like the idea of a "fine-grained" system of user levels.
It sounds like the beginning of a caste system. Sysops, bureaucrats, and normal users is one thing and creates fairly little tention, but what will we do? Have [[Requests for Level 3]] and all the other levels? When does it become too much of a headache for everybody?
While I see your point, the new user rights system, as I understand it, is not about creating "level 3 users" etc, but about being able to grant people some rights without granting them everything. Currently, we can't let somebody protect pages without also being able to delete them; or allow only some users to view deleted pages without being able to undelete them.
In practice, sysops will probably remain who can do basically everything, but if we want to grant extra rights here or take them away there, it should be possible. Or if the community decides that certain features are "too powerful for every sysop", or "safe enough for more people", it will only take a tweak in the user rights management. I imagine we will either end up with specific pages like "Requests for protection"; or, a "Requests for admin attention"-type page will be followed by users not all of whom will be able to fulfil all the requests - that doesn't matter, the request can stay there until someone comes along who can do it.