[WikiEN-l] Admins and elitism

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:24:10 -0500 (EST), "Jeff Raymond"
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>>2) More importantly, adminship is viewed as a reward rather than a
>>responsibility, thus creating a protector group of admins.  There's one
>>recently-promoted admin in particular who embodies this concept, but there
>>are many like him.
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>You might want to run that past a few admins and see how loudly they
>laugh.  Seriously, anyone who wants to be an admin should try it for a
>couple of weeks and see how they like it.
>
>Some people get the God complex on promotion, but I don't see it
>lasting long.  Everyone grows up.
>
It has less to do with what they do after promotion.  It's the title not 
the work that garners prestige.

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