On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:06:38PM -0600, Kurt Maxwell Weber wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2008 08:04, Raphael Wegmann wrote:
I share that view. IMHO there should be a mechanism to desysop those who act like they're masters. Since administrators should serve the community, they should not select their representatives for a lifetime. Instead those administrators who loose public support, should loose their administrative powers as well.
In order to avoid permanent elections, we could implement a system, in which every registered editor can choose his/her administrator. After some phase-in period, those administrators who loose all their supporting editors should loose their admin powers as well.
I've suggested something similar in the past: For their initial confirmation, administrators are required to reach a certain, objectively-defined and absolute threshold of votes (not a "discussion", not "consensus", but an outright vote), discounting SPAs, socks, and maybe a few others. A week after their confirmation process begins, if they meet that criteria they are admins.
From then on out, they must maintain that support. A page is maintained for
each administrator. It begins with the original confirmation request, and from that individual users may add or withdraw their support for that administrator as they see fit. Once a week, on the same day as the admin was initially confirmed, someone checks to see if they still meet that threshold. If they fall below the threshold for two consecutive weeks, they are de-adminned (requiring two consecutive weeks rather than just a single week helps give admins a chance to explain why they did what they did, in the event of a particularly controversial action that may nonetheless have been the best thing to do in a particular situation).
This is a seriously bad idea. Being an admin has enough hassle without having to keep an eye on such a page. Also who is going to check 1000+ pages every week. We certainly would need more crats then and I do not see too many people offering themselves to just check these pages. At least you are not asking for a bot to de-admin me if I fall below the right score.
Brian.
-- Kurt Weber kmw@armory.com
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