----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roan Kattouw" <[email protected]>

> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 8:07 PM, William Allen Simpson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > He compared her to Madonna. Basically, nothing will convince this
> > administrator. The administrator has to be taken out of the loop.
> >
> > We need technical means to handle that message.
> 
> No you don't. Clearly noticing such activity isn't a problem because
> you noticed and you're complaining about it. If you notice an
> administrator doing things you believe to be wrong or in violation of
> the rules or whatever, you complain to them, and if they don't listen,
> you complain on the village pump or the admins noticeboard or
> whichever on-wiki discussion forum takes your fancy, and then the
> community as a whole can discuss it. They might decide to discipline
> the admin, they might decide you're full of it, or they might decide
> nothing at all (no consensus). But this is a social problem, by no
> means a technical one.

I disagree, Roan, that the solution here is *completely* social; "you 
noticed it, didn't you" doesn't scale.

Cheers,
-- jra
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