[WikiEN-l] I'm back

Mon Dec 1 19:34:41 UTC 2003

But of course I'm several hundred emails behind, in Wikipedia alone,
not to mention all my other email.

Here's a thought: if I were to engage in a policy of de-sysop'ing
(what a word!) for more or less routine quarrels between sysops, then
rather than learning to live together, we'd have a strong incentive to
quarrel even more.  Rather than seeking to find a way to harmonize our
different points of views, we'd have an incentive to make the
counterparty look as bad as possible.

Compare: "Hey, SoAndSo, I wanted to leave a note for you about what
you did on thus-and-such a page.  I disagreed with what you did there,
and here's why.  Even though we disagree, I hope you can find a way to
meet me halfway on this."

Versus: "I nominate that SoAndSo be de-sysop'ed, and here's why: blah
blah blah.  And some other bad stuff about him.  And a list of links
to jerky things he's done."

--Jimbo