On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Kelly Martin wrote:
Unfortunately, I don't have any better proxies for "will not abuse administrative privilege". But I do think it would be a good idea to have admin selection be more deliberative and less of a popularity contest, as it is today. But the best solutions to accomplish that all involve creating special "administrator selection committees" or similar such bodies, which will be roundly decried as anti-democratic and cabalistic by people who are more interested in Wikipedia as an social experiment. And while this latter group is smaller than the group of people who are interested in Wikipedia as an encyclopedia, this smaller group is disproportionately represented amongst those who participate in community processes, thereby skewing "consensus" toward the "social experiment" point of view.
I wish I had a solution to THAT problem.
Kelly
Kelly, you seem to always ascribe bad faith to people for no reason other than the fact they disagree with you. I wish I had a solution to THAT problem.