On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:33 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 August 2010 18:12, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)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