On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Emily Monroe<[email protected]> wrote: >> the arbitration committee have tended to take the view that >> incivility alone is not a reason to remove the admin toolbox and flag. > > Oh, I get it--precedent interferes with my idea. > >> But yes, I've always followed Spider-Man, and thought that with >> great power comes great responsibility. > > This is exactly my point. If somebody has privileges, then they have > that *much more responsibility* to act in a civil matter.
That has unfortunately not been a formal enforced prerequisite nor strongly reinforced in the admins community. I agree with you - The example admins set is important. Every admin that's rude indicates to people that it's ok to be rude, and/or that it's ok to be rude if you're special (an admin) and not a peon (normal editors). Neither of these is a good thing. We have to have a tolerance band, even admins who normally go out of their way to be polite or levelheaded have bad days. People having a bad day, but not a persistent problem, should often just be politely notified and asked to go take the day off and relax / feel better elsewhere for a while. But admins who go too far overboard need to be reigned in, as do users who go too far overboard. And it does happen. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
