[WikiEN-l] Parker Peters's comments

[Stephen Streater]

On 6 Oct 2006, at 20:56, Stephen Streater wrote:

>
> On 6 Oct 2006, at 20:51, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
>
>> On 10/6/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Some adminship requests get opposed because the user aren't
>>> familiar in a
>>> specific field of administrator work. If we could specifically
>>> give people
>>> the tools they have the knowledge for, more requests would
>>> succeed. Perhaps
>>> it's time to run that plan to give people separate admin tools.
>>
>> Even as screwed up as things are today with respect to RFA the fact
>> remains that adminship is more about trust than about knowledge.  
>> If we
>> can't *trust you* to refrain from breaking the site too badly than  
>> you
>> should have exactly zero admin features.
>>
>> That adminship is mostly is sometimes being obscured the fact that
>> there is no clear way to measure trust... but breaking up adminship
>> into little boxes will not solve that.
>>
>> It is a shame because the tools of adminship are really tools which
>> every experienced user acting in good faith should have.  ... that  
>> was
>> always the intent, .. Remember? "No big deal".   But life has turned
>> out so much more complex.
>
> That's because people don't trust strangers,
> and most people on RfA are strangers.
>
> Basically, paranoia is safer.

I might also add that is why Wikignomes
always get promoted, and exciting people
who might actually make some progress
have a tough time. People are risk averse
when it comes to Admins.