On 09/02/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
I had been around for six months, seemed to know what was going on and hand't done anything stupid, and so of course I was given adminship upon request. Why don't we do that now? It's still not hard to take back adminship if someone badly misuses it, so IMO all RfA candidates should get adminship by default, with the burden of proof being upon anyone who thinks they should be denied it to argue why. More concretely, any unexplained "no" votes should not be counted.
Fully agreed. It seemed to work with many, including me (well, I'll leave that judgement to the reader ;-)); the current system seems to be negatively selecting against people who will "be bold" or "ignore all rules", too, which suggests a slow corruption of our community's spirit (note that I do not suggest that this is in any way deliberate). Let's do it - if it doesn't work, we can always return to the era of the Spanish Inquisition RfA.