moink wrote:
If admins are abusing this feature, then they should be
told to knock it off
and only use their sysop user rights to fight vandalism. Using those powers as
a tool to use against your opponents in an edit war is not acceptable and was
my main point with former-admin 168...
Just to clarify then, are admins only supposed to use the rollback
link in cases of simple vandalism? I wasn't aware that this was
policy, and I've used it a couple of times to revert things that were
a little more complex than run-of-the-mill vandalism. Of course, I've
never gotten into a revert war (how *do* people manage that?) but I'd
still like to make sure I'm following the rules.
moink
If you refer to what happened to 168, I would certainly recommand that
you only use that feature against pure vandal. Though there seems to be
no rule about it, it was perceived an abuse to use it in an edit war,
all the more against a non sysop.
It is not a rule, but I think it is best that sysops should not use
power they have in disagreement with other users who do not have that
power. Yes, both can do revert, but using the rollback feature is
perceived as a "power".