On 20 August 2010 20:36, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20/08/2010, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> (The dangerous things an admin can do include
putting
> potentially-malicious JavaScript into the default configuration. That
> would be a power not to spread all round. History merges are also all
> but irreversible. What other admin powers are actually dangerous?)
AFDs.
Having admins decide them gives inclusionists/deletionists too much
power to side with their friends in a nearly invisible way. Not only
can AFDs be vote stuffed, but admins can then decide to follow the
'majority'.
I'm talking about technically dangerous powers, not socially dangerous
ones. Solving those is an orthogonal problem. (Though the act of
deletion is easily reversible, so is a power it would be safe to grant
widely. Viewing deletia, OTOH, may not be; that said, oversighting is
pretty efficient.)
- d.