[WikiEN-l] Parker Peters's comments

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Oct 8 02:59:08 UTC 2006


David Gerard wrote:

>On 06/10/06, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
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>>The answer is simple.  Since RfAr is considered a major roadblock to
>>removing adminship, make it easier to do.  Then, people who you may have
>>trust issues with can be more easily promoted, because they can easily be
>>removed.  I'm much more likely to vote support on a candidate with a long
>>history, but some questions about, if I know that if they abuse the tools
>>or continually do the wrong thing, I can work to get them removed.  That's
>>not the case currently.
>>    
>>
>In practice I don't think this is such a problem. I can think of a
>couple of people who are now admins who I had pretty much this qualm
>over, but who both shaped up fine after a slightly rocky start.
>
Maybe a probation period is needed.

>And deadminning is a much bigger deal than adminning by its nature.
>
That alone is a problem.  The hoops that one must jump through to become 
an admin establish it as a big deal, even when we say it isn't.

Ec




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