[WikiEN-l] Admins shouldn't shoot back

[Gabe Johnson]

On 6/18/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > on 6/18/07 4:10 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge at telus.net wrote:
> > >> I was describing, not prescribing. For better or worse, your RFA is
> > >> the place where you essentially voluntarily put yourself under the
> > >> microscope. In a way, it's like a job interview, with all that
> > >> entails.
> > >>
> > > It's quite rare for a company to put all job interviews on a closed
> > > circuit TV network to its entire staff so that even the most menial
> > > employees can vote on whether that interviewee will get a management job.
>
> It has happened, famously, with some workers' cooperatives, and they
> inevitably fail for obvious reasons. Yet we persist in doing it here
> -- and worse, because we have no idea who our "menial employees" are,
> or whether we have one person filling several jobs -- using the excuse
> that adminship is "no big deal." Ditch that attitude, and we would
> quickly find a way to deal with some of our problems. So long as it's
> in place, there's no will to find creative solutions.
>

What problems are caused by too many admins? The way I see it, having
more admins is a very good way to prevent abuse on their part, since
they are accountable to more people "on their level". ~~~~

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