[WikiEN-l] Re: Re: Re: Desysopping inactive admins

Mon Sep 19 04:47:42 UTC 2005

As Phrozaic pointed out, inactive admins are theoretically much less of targets for account hijackers.  Nevertheless, I am in full support of more bureaucrats.

--Ryan

> From: Michael Turley <michael.turley at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Desysopping inactive admins
> 
> On 9/18/05, Ryan W. (Merovingian) <bigwiki at earthling.net> wrote:
> > It's not a bad idea, but I don't see it as necessary unless:
> >
> > 1. An inactive account was hacked into.
> > 2, If the admin in question requests it.
> 
> Short of going to the backup tape/drive/whatever device in use, isn't
> image deletion permanent?  If someone hacked an admin account,
> couldn't they delete dozens, or even hundreds of images before being
> stopped, especially if they used misleading edit summaries?
> 
> Unless ALL admin actions are easily revertable, removal of admin
> privileges from inactive accounts seems like an extremely obvious
> method of damage prevention to me.
> 
> If it's too much work, we shouldn't dodge the work, we should appoint
> more bureaucrats until we have more than enough to voluntarily cover
> all the duties.
> 
> --
> Michael Turley
> User:Unfocused

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