[WikiEN-l] Your comments on wikien-l regarding adminship

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton wrote:

>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.
>
Extrapolation is indeed the logic of the simple.  Had we depended 
entirely on extrapolating the visible world of Newtonian physics, 
Einstein's relativity might never have been discovered.

>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.
>
Wow!  Do you understand what you said?  You have managed to undermine 
the entire 17th century debate between rationalism and empiricism. =-O

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