Well, I think 5 is an unnecessarily high threshold, but yes I absolutely can see the merit in having 2 sysops approve something like this before it takes effect. I'll have to think about that.
I'm just generally in favor of being cautious about hierarchy and power, and doing just whatever is minimally necessary to accomplish our goals.
Nicolas Weeger wrote:
This sounds like a wonderful idea, but I see a big problem with it. If we had such a feature some sysops would be tempted to use it as punishment against some bad users. There's a certain amount of 'vigilantism' that I've grumpily tolerated because it's very minor and the people usually "deserve it" in some sense. But this would open a huge new can of worms.
What about something that'd require multiple sysop approval? Like, 5 sysops to check something & click to confirm? Even if it's harder to do, it sounds really more 'safe', as finding 5 sysops willingly 'punishing' a user with this feature seems hard. Also, there could be a strict policy on that: any sysop using this against anything but a spambot gets unsysop right away (of course, i assume a sysop doing this would in any case lose some respect from his community).
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