[WikiEN-l] You're magically made an admin. I'd just leave.

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 5/10/07, Gallagher Mark George <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au>
wrote:
>
> Vandals are potential future editors.  Your friends are current
> editors.  We don't want to piss off either group.  In the clutch, we should
> be leaning towards preserving current editors; but if we can do both, as I
> believe most admins try to do --- if ineptly at times --- this is better.


Has there ever been research about how many vandals reform and become good
editors? I would be very surprised if this was any significant percentage of
the total.
It's worth more to keep current editors than to help out people who are
currently a nuisance and may or may not become helpful later.

Mgm