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

[Ray Saintonge]

Ryan Delaney wrote:

>On 1/5/06, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Further, when we find there's a bad admin, this doesn't mean "we need to
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>>>make it harder for people whose main contribution is vandal-fighting to
>>>be an admin", it means, fire their ass, deadmin them, and then get
>>>someone else. If all they do is get in fights with other uses or throw
>>>their weight around on talkpages, they don't need the anti-vandal tools.
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>>It turns out that, in practice, it is difficult to de-admin an
>>administrator.
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>Well I think we all agree about what the problem is here. So what do we do
>about it?
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For starters we could abandon the notion that elevation to adminship 
needs to be a "democratic" process.

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