On 9/13/05, JAY JG <jayjg(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
I know that it
has become popular to grill admin candidates on their
criteria for "consensus" at AFD, and candidates who fail to meet the
standard that the deletionists have established as "reasonable" get
dogpiled with oppose votes. Frankly, I'm worried about this emergent
mob mentality, which I think is encouraged by having a caste of
professional deletionists, which is itself a consequence of having a
centralized deletion mechanism.
This "deletionist cabal" view of the way both RFA and AFD work does not
correspond to any sort of reality that I am aware of.
Check out the number of admin candidates who were asked to specify
their standard for AFD consensus by Hamster Sandwich. Sam Vimes got
dogpiled when his answer was deemed unsuitable (although he may have
been dogpiled for other reasons as well). JesseW was also
interrogated closely, although he passed muster and was not dogpiled.
Marianocecowski was interrogated. Scimitar was interrogated, but the
question was removed when it was answered collaterally. Hamser
Sandwich seems to have discontinued this interrogation method, but I'm
not pleased to see it happening.
Kelly