[WikiEN-l] Superusers?

[David Gerard]

On 20 August 2010 20:36, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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'.


I'm talking about technically dangerous powers, not socially dangerous
ones. Solving those is an orthogonal problem. (Though the act of
deletion is easily reversible, so is a power it would be safe to grant
widely. Viewing deletia, OTOH, may not be; that said, oversighting is
pretty efficient.)


- d.