From: Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net>
Rebecca wrote:
There is no fundamental reason not to apply soft
security to
adminship.
That it's unnecessary, for starters. What we have now works fine.
Changing that creates a whole lot of security problems that we just
don't need - particularly with no compelling reason to change in the
first place.
You are asserting that "what we have now works fine" even though I have
already mentioned numerous times why I think it does *not* work fine. I
have provided what I think is a compelling reason to change in the first
place.
Your argument boils down to this; it's not working fine because I think the
bar is set too high.
The Open
Directory Project continually hung an axe over people - and
they left as a result, in droves. Let us not make the same mistake.
I suppose we're doing the other extreme (high bar for entry to adminship
and even higher bar for getting "axed out" of adminship) - and we have
rather few good admins as a result (500 out of 25500, less than 2%, isn't
very much for something that's supposedly "no big deal"). That's the
mistake on the other side of the spectrum...
Ah, but how many regularly active editors? Probably no more than 1000.
Jay.