Thomas Dalton wrote:
I disagree. Vandalising is easier than cleaning up vandalism,
This is a false assumption.
It may be true in some cases, and it may well be the case that the admin features in MediaWiki happen to be such cases. But it is not true in general, and MediaWiki is still in active development.
and all these proposals basically remove blocks.
Well, I don't know about other proposals, but mine doesn't. Quite to the contrary, I am proposing to have several levels of blocking. The first is that which is currently called "de-adminning".
Timwi