QUOTE(Moulton @ Mon 14th July 2008, 4:43am)
Wikipedia is like
Web Side Story, with rival street gangs staking out their territory and fending off intruders by kiboshing them with the WP:Rules. Each local cabal is an
ad hoc ochlocracy unto itself. The whole thing gives me a bad case of
dyspepsia.
Dude, you are SO far off base. It's not any homage to West Side Story.
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It's this.QUOTE(UserB @ Mon 14th July 2008, 6:22am)
There's a bigger problem with community desysopping (aka desysopping by lynch mob)
The bigger question: If everything in Wikipedia is
required (Foundation rules) to be decided by consensus, why is this one thing--removal of permissions--exempt on English Wikipedia?
All the other projects seem to run just fine with community desysop.