On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:58 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 2/27/2008 10:51:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, cdhowie@gmail.com writes:
<< Any "Rule Z" here is irrelevant, because there is nothing stopping administrators from making a channel somewhere else, on some other IRC server, or some other chat server entirely. >>
Yes, if we had a rule Z in-wiki which said "don't do this", then we'd impose it just like any other rule. If an admin is caught doing it, they face the requirements of that rule. Same as the rest of Wiki.
And this would be a pointless rule, just more CREEP. If I can justify an action off-wiki then I can justify it on-wiki. If I cannot justify an action on-wiki then I cannot justify it off-wiki.
If you ask an admin why they did something and they say "I dunno, we agreed that it was the best thing" then you have every right to demand an explanation, which may be in the form of a chat log and it may just be a paraphrase, but either way you then have something to dispute. If they say "someone told me to do it" and cannot provide more than that then take it to RfC, MedCom, ArbCom, whatever.
I still don't see what the point is and I'd be interested to know how you would draft this "rule Z."