[WikiEN-l] Bauer DRV question - history (was Wikimedia Foundation sued)

[Oskar Sigvardsson]

On 3/27/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> I don't see any particular problem with that.  The Admins know what they
> are doing.

I don't distrust the admins either, but that's not the point. When it
comes to influences in discussions, admins have no special position.
Their opinions doesn't count extra in an AfD or RfA for instance. They
get to judge consensus in a way that normal people can't (i.e. closing
AfDs) and they get to manage the community and the encyclopedia
(blocking/protecting) but they don't get any extra authority to make
editorial decisions of any kind.

I've been a user for almost three years but not an admin, should my
opinion not count for anything in this particular discussion?

--Oskar