On 5/10/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
On May 8, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
Because then the judges (closing admins) have discretionary power, and in that situation, decisions are made by admin aristocracy, not consensus.
Consensus already requires interpretation by admins, who have discretinary power to ignore it.
That power is strictly limited to upholding policy and Office actions. There's a difference between admins interpreting consensus, and abandoning consensus while delegating decision-making power to admins alone. The latter is utterly unacceptable.
As you point out, when consensus conflicts with policy, admins should upload policy. Classic example, 20 people "vote" to maintain the copyvio image...a sensible admin ignores them.
Steve