[WikiEN-l] Things about admins
Timwi
timwi at gmx.net
Fri Jul 14 17:15:02 UTC 2006
Hi,
There is one thing I don't really quite understand, and I was wondering
if someone could explain this to me in very simple and easy-to-follow
terms...
Basically, I seem to be making the following two recurring observations:
(1) Users who are unhappy with some admin action or other post to the
mailing list - sometimes angrily, sometimes rationally, but always
making explicit that they are annoyed - complaining about what they
perceive to be "admin abuse".
(2) Admins sometimes defend their actions by using the argument, "If
you've managed to piss off several admins, chances are you've done
something wrong."
Given that this massive influx of annoyed complaints plainly
demonstrates that users are much more commonly and much more seriously
the ones that get annoyed, and supposing that the argument #2 is
applicable, doesn't it follow plainly obviously that the admins are
doing much more significant wrongs?
The only ways out of this dilemma appear to be either to admit that a
larger proportion of users are right in their "cabal" accusations than
is widely assumed, OR... to accept that argument #2 is invalid.
If we accept that argument #2 is invalid, then it must logically follow
that admins getting annoyed is no indication of user behaviour being
wrong. If that is so, then what sort of non-wrong behaviour gets them
pissed off and why?
Timwi
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