[WikiEN-l] the elephant in the room

[The Mangoe]

On 6/17/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fred, a banned user could cause a lot of trouble if he got elected to
> ArbCom using open proxies and a concocted admin account, built up
> easily by doing lots of vandalism reverting. There has to be some
> minimal accountability with admins, in part because they can be
> elected to these positions, and in part because they can cause big
> problems even without these extra powers.

And so could an UN-banned user. The current program doesn't strike me
as being accountability per se. Everybody being accountable to one
group of admins is inadequate.

The other thing about the harping on banning and identification is
that it's rather too obvously about preventing particular people from
editing, and not about the editing per se.