[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[Rob]

On 2/9/07, Keitei <nihthraefn at gmail.com> wrote:
> In order to become an admin, one must have an impeccable track record
> and have been aiming for adminship for quite some time. Then one must
> jump through all sorts of flaming hoops while all the people one gets
> along with the least gather to heckle. Then having become an admin,
> one gets treated like shit by newcomers pissed that one has deleted
> their page, trolls pissed that one has blocked them, POV pushers
> pissed that one has protected their page, users insistent that one is
> just the same as them and does not have any greater level of trust
> and should never be given any level of slack, users convinced that
> one is abusing one's powers, and "valued contributors" insistent that
> one does not matter and should go to hell because they do so much
> more and are so much more important to the encyclopedia.

We should put this on a plaque and hand it out to every new admin with
their mop, bucket, and hazmat suit.