Karl-
Jens Frank <JeLuF(a)gmx.de> writes:
> That's easy to fix. You've proven not to
be a vandal, so you can
> become a sysop. Any objections anyone?
No, that's not what I want ;-) Such a change would
not fix the problem
for all the other (anonymous) editors.
Ugh. Rollback ability for sysops is there to *create* an imbalance of
power, i.e. to reduce the cost for sysops to undo vandalism. Giving this
ability to everyone would defeat the whole point -- vandals could react
just as quickly as we could revert their edits. The question is: Is this
privilege likely to be abused? It's not - sysops are not allowed to engage
in edit wars any more than everyone else.
Perhaps it's just the title
("sysop") I don't like. I would agree with something called
"advanced
editor" or "senior editor", though.
That would be highly misleading. Sysops are *not* editors, they are not
responsible for moderating content, they merely deal with vandalism and
carry out the requests of the users (e.g. votes for deletion).
Regards,
Erik