[WikiEN-l] Worthy admins? (was "The userbox fad")

Wed Jan 4 13:01:46 UTC 2006

On 1/4/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>   Time for hiercharchies of admins? Give "rollback" powers to anyone
> with half a clue. Save temporary block powers for people with a whole
> clue.  Save permanent block/ban powers for people with demonstrated
> good judgement, preferably on the previous levels.
>
> Not to make it a prestige thing, of course...
>
> Steve
>
You could always give rollback, delete, undelete, protect and
unprotect powers to everyone, at least everyone with more than X
edits.

Of course that would require banning users that abuse that power,
which I suppose is the real problem with adminship too: no one is
stepping up and removing the powers when they are abused.

The whole theory that adminship "should be no big deal" is based on
the fact that admins have no authority and that adminship can be taken
away.  The arb committee is what's really broken.  Actually, I'd say
the arb committee never worked all that well in the first place.

Anthony