On 9/13/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
I know that it has become popular to grill admin candidates on their criteria for "consensus" at AFD, and candidates who fail to meet the standard that the deletionists have established as "reasonable" get dogpiled with oppose votes. Frankly, I'm worried about this emergent mob mentality, which I think is encouraged by having a caste of professional deletionists, which is itself a consequence of having a centralized deletion mechanism.
This "deletionist cabal" view of the way both RFA and AFD work does not correspond to any sort of reality that I am aware of.
Check out the number of admin candidates who were asked to specify their standard for AFD consensus by Hamster Sandwich. Sam Vimes got dogpiled when his answer was deemed unsuitable (although he may have been dogpiled for other reasons as well). JesseW was also interrogated closely, although he passed muster and was not dogpiled. Marianocecowski was interrogated. Scimitar was interrogated, but the question was removed when it was answered collaterally. Hamser Sandwich seems to have discontinued this interrogation method, but I'm not pleased to see it happening.
Kelly