[WikiEN-l] Parker Peters's comments

[Andrew Gray]

On 06/10/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/10/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > This proposal is based on the key, and possibly fallacious, assumption
> > that 90% of admins are sane sensible quiet people who know Acting Like
> > A Tosser when it's pointed out to them. (Restricting it to admins
> > isn't meant to be some kind of elegant blackball system for overriding
> > RFA, just to get some guaranteed sanity involved...)
>
> Given recent conflicts on the wiki, particularly the surprisingly
> nasty one on RFAr right now, I doubt it would *guarantee* sanity. It
> might be something.
>
> But ... I'm still waiting for anything resembling verifiable evidence
> that there are clear targets for such a process. That is to say:
> evidence diffs of problematic behaviour, not just ranting on the
> mailing list that admins are an evil abusive cabal.

I dunno. I agree with the general broad thrust of this complaint;
there are too many "young admins" generally being... overzealous. I'm
not sure I can really quantify it, but I know the feeling.

(Maybe this is just me feeling a little burned out; I don't know. But
there is something there, even if I don't feel it as strongly...)

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk