[Wikipedia-l] I'm seeing a trend here or How to keep driving away good contributors

[The Cunctator]

On 10/24/02 5:33 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:

> Let's come up with a set of guidelines and figure out how to give admins the
> power to enforce them -- in a way that does not curtail the ability of
> contributors to fulfill the mission of Wikipedia.

You're looking at this in not quite the right way. Rather than thinking
about creating a police force (which is what giving one percent of the users
power to enforce rules is) we need to be thinking about SoftSecurity.