--- Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren@yahoo.com wrote:
I guess a sysop is more like a judge. I don't think it is fair to say that sysops are a police force. Being a policeman (or woman) implies doing something compulsively, without consent, as opposed to someone more like a judge, who consents all involved parties as well as the rules/laws, the previous precedents, and the jury (in this case the Wikipedia community).
If sysops are going to consider themselves judges, we're going to have serious long-term problems.
I for one prefer the Jimbo-as-judge, everybody else enforce his decisions, either through force (police==sysop) or persuasion (coaching==caring user).
Otherwise we'll run into the situation of he-said she-said.
===== Christopher Mahan chris_mahan@yahoo.com 818.943.1850 cell http://www.christophermahan.com/
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