[WikiEN-l] katefan0

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Erik Moeller wrote:
> On 5/27/06, Will Sceptre Noble <tintower at tintower.tk> wrote:
>> I have to admit, that is disgusting. Especially sgrayban, who I can't
>> believe thinks destroying someones career is ethical.
> 
> You have a bunch of people who tend to be somewhat socially difficult
> to begin with, add another bunch of people who are not just difficult
> but downright mental, and give them a single enemy to focus on.
> Witness what humanity is capable of and be glad that it's just a
> website on the Internet. "He's a member of group X, therefore common
> human decency no longer applies."
> 
> Unfortunately, being an active admin these days means that sooner or
> later, you're going to be the target of some abuse. It's almost like
> our anal criteria of adminship (x% edit summaries, >n% in namespace
> foo, etc.) have evolved to make sure that only those who are
> sufficiently die hard Wikipedians will be exposed to this ugly side of
> a large, open online community. Still, it saddens me greatly whenever
> a good user like Katefan0 gets trampled on, and I wish we could do
> more to help them.
> 

A radical proposal for you all then:

Delink administrative actions from user accounts. Give admins access to
a shared admin account, with a private log linking actions to the users
who have done them, viewable only by other admins.

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