[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Sun Feb 11 14:23:29 UTC 2007


> You're misunderstanding the nature of risk. Our aim is not to remove
> all risk, that's impossible. Our aim is to reduce risk to the minimum
> possible while stilling being able to make our encyclopaedia as well
> as possible. Talking about the level of risk of a certain thing is
> meaningless, you have to take about the level of risk compared to the
> gain from it. The gain from 1000 admins is enormous compared to the
> risk of 1000 admins. The gain from 10000 admins is much small compared
> to the risk of 10000 admins. In my opinion, and apparently in the
> majority opinion, that gain is not worth the risk.

I don't generally reply to myself to correct typos, but that email is
full of them!

stilling -> still
take about -> talk about
small -> smaller

I shouldn't type with cold fingers... sorry!



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