[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[William Pietri]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> Remember that under my suggestion, we're talking a total of 6 months
>> that a sleeper vandal would have to "sleep" before they entered the
>> ranks of "normal" admins (3 months of keeping your nose clean, followed
>> by three months of continued good behavior as an admin). And remember,
>> someone setting out as a sleeper vandal would not be guaranteed of
>> becoming an admin after three months, it's still up to the random
>> selection. Is it impossible for someone to game this process? Sure. Is
>> it likely? Hardly.
>>     
>
> The flaw in that logic is in thinking that there is anything different
> between a "normal admin" and a "provisional admin" besides the name.
> There isn't. Adminship is a bit in a database, either you have that
> bit and are able to do enormous damage to Wikipedia, or you don't.
> There is no need to sleep for 6 months when you can do the damage
> immediately. It would take a few minutes at the very best to desysop a
> provisional admin that started vandalising - how much damage do you
> think an AdminVandalBot could do in that time? I imagine it would be
> hours normal-admin time to cleanup.
>   

Couldn't that logic be applied almost equally to allowing everybody to edit?


Curiously,

William