On 3/31/06, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Steve Bennett" wrote
Personally I'm a bit puzzled that there seems to be a bias in favour of people who have edited high profile articles and thus have "handled conflict" well.
Errr ... aren't those exactly the kind of people we are short of? Few are natural diplomats, but part of being an admin is a willingness to intervene in tense situations, where there is no personal gain at all in sight.
Admins normally shouldn't be entering content disputes. Theoretically they shouldn't even care about content, in the same was as a football referee theoretically doesn't care who's winning.
I may be forgetting some pertinant situations here, but being well versed in getting a point of view across in a content dispute is not necessarily a useful skill in adminship. No?
Steve