[WikiEN-l] Re: (fwd) bishonen exercises abuse of admin power

Tue Jul 5 16:42:20 UTC 2005

Haven't you noticed by now?

This utterly dismissive attitude by users like sandifer/Snowspinner and 
GMaxwell is typical of the inner admin clique - they really, truly, DO NOT 
CARE unless it involves them staying in power.

Anything that would mean they would have to pay attention to the rules and 
policies, or do their job properly, or admit they were wrong... forget it.

And it's the users - the same users we rely on to write an encyclopedia - 
that are hurt by their constant, dismissive, arrogant attitude.

Admins are not "better" than other editors. They are editors with a couple 
extra buttons.

There are too many Admins today who have forgotten that and seem to think 
that Adminship is a license to throw their weight around and lord it over 
all the "common folk" editors.

A. Nony Mouse

>From: Michael Turley <michael.turley at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Michael Turley <michael.turley at gmail.com>,English Wikipedia 
><wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
>To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: (fwd) bishonen exercises abuse of admin power
>Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:34:56 -0400
>
>On 7/2/05, Phil Sandifer <sandifer at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> > -Snowspinner
> >
> > On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Nathan J. Yoder wrote:
> >
> > >> You're correct - the second block is an IP address block, designed to
> > >> prevent people from just creating a new account.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Yes, which why this isn't functioning properly.  It should only renew
> > > it if the person tries it while not logged in or if they create/use
> > > another account (a sock puppet) to try to edit (in other words--if
> > > they try to evade the block). That's not what I was doing though, I
> > > was logged in as User:Njyoder the entire time and didn't realize until
> > > later that by hitting 'edit' it automatically renewed it.
> >
> >
> > Ah, I see. Perhaps you would like to look at the Mediawiki code and
> > fix this problem then, because, honestly, you're the one who cares.
> >
> > -Snowspinner
>
>This utterly dismissive attitude toward a complaint is very harmful to
>Wikipedia, even if you don't believe the complaint is legitimate.  You
>should have either directed him to the developer's list, or civilly
>stated your opinion whether this was a desirable bug or feature, or
>simply left it to others to discuss.
>
>--
>Michael Turley
>User:Unfocused
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