[WikiEN-l] Superusers?

Ian Woollard ian.woollard at gmail.com
Fri Aug 20 19:36:03 UTC 2010


On 20/08/2010, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> (The dangerous things an admin can do include putting
> potentially-malicious JavaScript into the default configuration. That
> would be a power not to spread all round. History merges are also all
> but irreversible. What other admin powers are actually dangerous?)

AFDs.

Having admins decide them gives inclusionists/deletionists too much
power to side with their friends in a nearly invisible way. Not only
can AFDs be vote stuffed, but admins can then decide to follow the
'majority'.

> - d.

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-Ian Woollard



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