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Jack Lynch wrote:
I'd been hoping for a long time that the position of adminship would be done away with, in favor of something more wikilike. This entire thread betrays the basics of why the wikipedia works (anti-elitism, ability of everyone to edit). These proposals perpetuate the idea that admins are somehow more competent for having won a popularity contest at RfA. That simply is not true, and eventually you'll discover the reason why the wikipedia works, and the nupedia didn't. Creating hegemony to the benefit of the few is no way to encourage volunteership. Skilled contributors don't donate their time in order to be made to feel like 2nd class citizens. Your damn lucky I enjoy reading the encyclopedia so much, or I wouldn't be wasting time w such an unrewarding process.
Oh, so you would rather that we let everyone vandalise and edit war without restraint?
If RfA is a popularity contest, how did the people that "won" get so popular in the first place?
And while we're at it, are you in the habit of conducting "experiments" to press admins's buttons, to see just how much crap they are willing to tolerate?
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