[Foundation-l] Rollbackersaurus attacks en.wiki

[Majorly]

On 11/01/2008, Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was greeted yesterday by a friendly message saying I'd been granted
> rollback.
> I didn't want it, I never asked for it. I never applied at
> WP:RFRASIJOAAJCSA
> for it. I asked for it to be removed, and it was. However, two issues are
> paramount in my mind:
>
> A) When did rollback suddenly become the tool de jour? Why is it suddenly
> a must-have for all editors?
>
> B) Why are some people so intent on giving it to out? As if the wiki
> would crumble without it?
>
> Chad H.
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 3:09 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jan 11, 2008 11:54 AM, Robert Rohde <rarohde at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > A summary, for those who are completely lost:
> > >
> > > Recently developers added the ability for admins on the English
> Wikipedia to
> > > grant rollback rights to non-admin accounts.
> > >
> > > This followed a large discussion and vote on enwiki in which ~2/3 of
> > > participants favored this feature
> > [snip]
> >
> > It's also the case that only one option was offered in that particular
> > poll "admins can grant/revoke rollback from others". A lot of the
> > critics of the current behavior are pointing out issues with wheel
> > warring (which is already happening) and additional bureaucratic
> > overhead.  Many of those people would prefer an rollback be granted
> > automatically, like page moves.
> >
> > Considering that rollback is just a faster version of edit, just as
> > move is a faster (and less problem causing) version of edit+ copy and
> > paste, that makes sense to me.  I was sold when I saw a user since
> > 2005 in good standing rejected because he used the wrong template to
> > apply for rollback, and the wheel warring. :)
> >
> >
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I dislike the fact users are giving it without even bothering to ask the
user in question if they want it. That is pretty rude.

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Alex (Majorly)

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