[Wikipedia-l] Desysoping

Delirium delirium at hackish.org
Sat Feb 19 09:31:55 UTC 2005


Jack Lutz wrote:

>Dispute resolution against sysops is currently very, very slim. It should be easier to lose administrator privileges--and these are privileges--than to gain them. I cannot find any information on the consequences of out-of-policy blocks, and Blocking_policy's coverage of ethics consists only of "users should not block those with whom they are currently engaged in conflict." Does that cover personal attacks or threats? Is a sysop permitted to declare text of a user with whom they are in conflict a threat and summarily block them? Yes, I'm talking about TBSDY and User:SS-88 in that case.
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In general, I don't think you'll find a lot of support for desysopping 
for one incident.  Desysopping is usually only done in cases that are 
either pretty egregious or involve of a pattern of abuse of sysop powers 
(especially continuing to do something inappropriate after being warned).

-Mark




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