Anthère (but forced to be only Anthere on [[fr:]]) wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Being a sysop is only a status thing in the sense that it means that you're trusted not to post obscene material on the homepage, to use certain destructive commands only in accordance with long-established custom, if at all, and that you'll help police against vandals in a gentle and caring way.
All being behaviors that anybody could follow, without being necessary a sysop. Being gentle, caring, loving and trusted, is not the prerogative of a sysop.
Indeed, all things that anybody could and should do. But you can't become a sysop unless we *trust* that you will do them. Thus, becoming a sysop indicates that such trust exists, a status bonus. Not being a sysop hardly proves that such trust does *not* exist -- but it leaves open that possibility, so not a status bonus.
Still, you are right, we should ignore this status bonus. Being a sysop is not meant to be a status thing.
-- Toby