[WikiEN-l] Worthy admins? (was "The userbox fad")

[Ray Saintonge]

charles matthews wrote:

> "Carbonite"  wrote
>
>> The reality is that de-admining isn't a simple process and it's only
>
> likely to be successful in clear cases of admin misconduct. In cases
> where an admin hasn't blatantly abused his powers, but has made many
> poor judgement calls, there's not much that can be done.
>
> I certainly remember a time - and it can't have been so long ago - 
> when it was generally assumed that one could reason with Wikipedians.  
> Indeed we were rather reluctant to write off individuals as irrational.
>
> Does that not scale, then?

When I first joined prospective sysops were expected to join the mailing 
list.

Writing off individuals is again irrational; it's more efficient to 
write off whole groups. :-)

Ec