QUOTE(Somey @ Sun 28th June 2009, 5:14pm)
Since nobody else seems to be willing to provide contextual links for this particular branch of the so-called discussion, I believe what Mr. Alex and Mr. Aeon are referring to is
this "oppose" vote on the RfA for someone called
CeranthorÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
, which was soon followed by
this talk-page discussion.
While I don't personally see the point in any of this, I'd nevertheless like to remind members that this is not Wikipedia, and that readers would appreciate occasionally being given some sort of clue as what the hell they're talking about.
To put this in context:
* I began the thread with the thesis that it is not the administration of Wikipedia that is dysfunctional, but the community, and perhaps the community should be destroyed or 'rehabilitated'.
* One of my suggestions for achieving this was consistently opposing every RfA. This would have the effect (if everyone was like-minded) of reducing the number of administrators until the system collapsed.
* I then carried this idea out, more as an experiment to see what would happen (in particular, to see if the Wikipedian idea about 'the community' having to support everything was really consistent.
* The results you see here before you.
* My conclusion is that the community really is dysfunctional. OK, it took me some time to realise that. I have always had a great faith in human nature, perhaps misplaced.
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