On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:06 PM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I agree that admins might not be necessarily trusted with permissions which would screw up site operations. We do no administrator ID verification, and the length and breadth of high load website operations/architecture experience is not a selection criteria. Limiting it to people who understand what effects it could have, and who are better known to the community/foundation, seems sensible.
Any reason not to set this up as a new userright we can have Arbcom hand to admins on request/review/background verification?
Uh, what's you're point?
Bureaucrats are not required to identify themselves and about half of them do not, cf.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers/bureaucrat http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Identification_noticeboard
I understand a couple of them are believed not to be legal adults either.
—C.W. —C.W.