[WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins - The theory that making it easier to get rid of admins is a solution to the decline in their active numbers

[Thomas Dalton]

On 30 May 2010 11:43, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed. The first - and, I would have thought, jawdroppingly obvious -
> result would be that no-one at all would go near such work in any
> circumstances.

Exactly. The big problem with community desysoppings is that any admin
doing their job properly will have enemies. The longer you do the job,
the more enemies you will have. Whenever you block someone, you annoy
the blockee. Whenever you delete an article, you annoy the creator.
Whenever you protect an article, you annoy the person whose version
you didn't protect on. If you let those people be in charge of the
desysopping process, we won't have any good admins left doing even
slightly controversial work (which, as I've explained, is pretty much
all admin work).