[WikiEN-l] Superusers?

[Carcharoth]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:33 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 August 2010 18:12, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with you that "If you spread the powers out over more people
>> then this issue is largely or completely avoided." But my response to
>> that is that the solution is to appoint more admins - if all longterm,
>> clueful, civil editors are admins then the increasingly unhealthy
>> concentration of power on a dwindling number of active admins is
>> dissipated. To my mind an increasingly picky environment at RFA is the
>> cause of the problem not a solution to it.
>
> This is a pretty widely held view. But RFA is so poisonous that less
> and less people care to run the gauntlet. And RFA is loath to reform
> itself. This has been a problem for several years.
>
> The real solution is to Do Something about RFA. This having failed,
> people look to resort to workarounds.

Would it be possible to set up a parallel system for granting a new
user-right, and let people vote with their feet as to which to run in
and participate in? That would be one way to phase in changes, with
the better system of the two eventually being adopted in the other
system as well.

Carcharoth