[WikiEN-l] Parker Peters's comments

[Parker Peters]

I didn't suggest making it harder to become an admin.

I suggested making it easier for more people to have "some" power, without
lowering the bar for people to attain the "absolute" power an adminship now
entails.

I'm also suggesting that without the burden of such powers, perhaps some of
the more incivil admins might be able to take a load off, relax, and leave
the really heavy stuff to those who could handle it better and without being
incivil.

Parker

On 10/6/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/10/06, Parker Peters <onmywayoutster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Part of the problem I think with admins who get on power trips is that
> one
> > day, they went from being an un-powerful little normal editor, to the
> next
> > day being able to do all these amazing things. Imagine if you one day
> woke
> > up with x-ray vision: your first thought would probably be to use it on
> > your
> > hot next-door neighbor, wouldn't it?
> >
>
> It been traditional for Wikipedia to have as many admins as possible
> without
> laxing our barriers to adminship too much. I think this is from the open
> source "many eyes catch all the bugs" school of thinking. The reason we
> are
> able to do this is because, as someone has already mentioned, all admin
> actions are recorded and reversible.
>
> I also do not think that making it harder to become an admin would make
> some
> admins more civil. Many of the most curt admins (perhaps read "uncivil")
> have been with us for a long time. Clearly, their curtness has nothing to
> do
> with your X-ray effect and is more related to a jaded outlook.
> --
> Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)
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