[Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/2/9 geni <geniice at gmail.com>:
> 2009/2/9 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>:
>> I dislike this argument very much. People cannot choose that they are
>> born in Iran or in China, or in the USA or Europe. Use such a trait that
>> cannot be influence by a person against him is a kind of discrimination.
>
> True but it's based on reality rather than predudice.
>
>> So long as the person doesn't handle against the rule there is no reason
>> to assume that he would do that. Keep a good faith is one of the
>> principles of how Wikimedians should meet each other.
>
> Good faith is one thing but we also assume the person we are dealing
> with is human. Realistically the Iranian government is able to put
> enough ah pressure on it's citizens to arrange for them to cooperate
> (this is true for most governments). It is also the case that the
> Iranian government is more likely to do so in a problematical manner
> than western governments.

I agree, but it's pretty unlikely. And even if they do, stewards
aren't *that* powerful. I'm not really sure what they would do. A
vandal getting steward access could cause a hell of a mess, but why
would Iran want to do that? They can't shut us down or censor us with
just a steward account.