[WikiEN-l] Admins without validated e-mail addresses (was: RfAs)

[Arwel Parry]

In message <20060510143513.43013.qmail at web34515.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, 
Pete Bartlett <pcb21-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> writes
>>Arwel wrote:
>
>> I agree that all admins /should/ to have a valid email
>>contact address, and really ought to be de-adminned if they don't
>>provide one.
>
>Once again assumes that the set of all admins is equal to the
>set of admins who get involved in contentious actions.
>
>We really must stamp out this false assumption.
>
>There are many many admins who never do something sufficiently contentious
>to warrant the use of email. I personally have made admin actions numbering
>in the hundreds and have _never_ been emailled about them.
>
>Only if you are going to go round contentiously banning people do you need
>your email available....
>
>Pete

Hmm, no... how about when a user has a run-in with an admin and wants 
another admin to review the situation? I've had a few people ask me to 
look at something, even though I usually agree with the other admin. Few 
of the people I've blocked (anons, usually, or blatant vandals) have 
complained, though like anybody else I'm human and admit I can make 
mistakes - only last week I accidentally blocked the wrong anon user in 
a fast-moving  spate of vandalism, but reversed myself in about 5 
minutes...

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Arwel Parry
http://www.cartref.demon.co.uk/