On 20 August 2010 20:36, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20/08/2010, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> (The dangerous things an admin can do include putting >> potentially-malicious JavaScript into the default configuration. That >> would be a power not to spread all round. History merges are also all >> but irreversible. What other admin powers are actually dangerous?) > AFDs. > Having admins decide them gives inclusionists/deletionists too much > power to side with their friends in a nearly invisible way. Not only > can AFDs be vote stuffed, but admins can then decide to follow the > 'majority'. I'm talking about technically dangerous powers, not socially dangerous ones. Solving those is an orthogonal problem. (Though the act of deletion is easily reversible, so is a power it would be safe to grant widely. Viewing deletia, OTOH, may not be; that said, oversighting is pretty efficient.) - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
