Thomas Dalton wrote:
Where's your evidence for that last sentence?
As far as I'm aware, this theory has never been put to practice, so I don't see how you can make such a claim.
I think the amount of effort we have to put in to cleaning up regular vandalism is evidence enough. Using the same system for assigning admin powers as we use for assigning editing powers *will* result in large amounts of admin vandalism, that's just simple extrapolation. Saying that cleaning up admin vandalism will be harder than cleaning up regular vandalism is a logical deduction, it's not based on evidence, you're right, but it is based on very solid reasoning.
I didn't contest any of that. I contested the (fallacious) conclusion that "it doesn't work in practice".
Everyone thought that about editing too, until Wikipedia proved everyone wrong.
Timwi