On 11/01/2008, Mark Ryan ultrablue@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, I'd say there's been a steady, voluntary erosion of the control developers have over the site. We no longer need developers to do things for us like oversighting revisions or modifying most interface text. It's only new things that really need their intervention.
Most of those came about because of the pain-in-the-arse factor for developers - they have enough work to do keeping our fabulous towering edifice of gaffer tape and string running! Checkuser, oversight, interface text ...
I think the arbcom would be silly to take on the question of rollback permissions if they could reasonably avoid doing so - accepting it will mean everyone with an argument will whinge to them, more than now.
(Personally I'd favour just making it autoconfirmed. But I didn't !vote either time around.)
- d.