[WikiEN-l] There's a name for an all-out wheel war

[Christof Sperl]

A sysop is able to "descent from the clouds" and "rain holy thunder upon
him"?

I find it rather questionable that you make these metaphors... adminship is
not something godly that is used to lay whoopass down upon others... it
should be used as a tool to help the editors, not to burn them.

And seriously, I do not believe in Jimbos "devine vengeance"...

On 16/02/07, Flame Viper <flameviper12 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> It would be a terrible idea to give *every editor* admin powers. If you
> don't believe me, let me give an outline of what would happen:
>
> 1. Main page is deleted/restored/deleted/unprotected/protected/etc
> 2. Main page is replaced with tubgirl/goatse/meatspin
> 3: MediaWiki namespace is trashed/vandalised/deleted
> 4: Random editors are blocked for no reason
> 5: Random pages are deleted/protected for no reason
>
> And the terrible thing about this is that nobody could stop it. Normally,
> when an edit war breaks out, a sysop is able to descend from the clouds and
> settle things. When there is an abusive editor, a sysop can rain holy
> thunder upon him.
>
> If every editor can block, unblock, and generally destroy everything,
> who's next? Will the bureaucrats have to step in and lay down a Supreme
> Block? And then what if Bureaucrat is made a default right? And up until
> Steward? Will Jimbo have to step into the fray and lay his divine vengeance?
>
> Now the continuation of expanding user rights is just hypothetical, but it
> gives you an idea.
>
>
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