[Foundation-l] Meta:MetaProject to Overhaul Meta

Anthere Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 31 08:03:07 UTC 2006


Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Matt Brown wrote:
> 
> 
>>On 3/29/06, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>
>>
>>>Yep, it's understandable.  They were listed for bulk deletion; there were
>>>no active objections.  But a few hundred irreversible deletions, mixed w/
>>>unusual article deletions, are unnerving as someone's first admin actions.
>>>   
>>>
>>
>>Not so much when someone is accustomed to being an admin on another
>>project and sees a job that needs to be done, I think.
>>
>>It seems that Meta is unused to people doing such things, which seems
>>quite strange to me.
>>
> 
> There's nothing strange about it.  You may have built trust in the other 
> project to enable you to do such things.  You can't assume that the 
> trust will transfer as easily as your interests.  Perhaps the members of 
> your new project have established different policies for such things.  
> Those policies could be diametrically different from the ones that you 
> are familiar with.
> 
> Ec

Exactly.

Ant




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