David Gerard-2 wrote:
On 09/07/07, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
Oh, please. Would you listen to someone caught speeding who suggested that having a standard form was insulting, and that they should receive a hand-written letter detailing their idiocy in beautiful copper-plate?
*cough* OK, I probably didn't pick the best example to hang the topic on ...
On a slightly more serious note, there does seem to be more of an atmosphere recently of "tie the admins up with red tape".
This business of "blocks shall be preventative rather than punitive", for example. Quite apart from the distinct echoes of Monty Python [1], who are you going to block in a preventative manner other than some clown who has been acting the goat, and how is that not punitive?
There seems to be a gang of people willing to jump into a thread on WP:ANI cudgelling any admin who makes themself available, and I don't like it.
HTH HANFD