QUOTE(One @ Wed 15th July 2009, 4:26pm)
I agree with that last point. Should be a limit on "retiring."
Just wondering because MZM was also all over Rootology's noindexing thing, and (along with Xeno),
was agitated about him being among the dozens of admins with semi-protected pages.... Seemed like there was some history, but I may be wrong.
MZ takes a strict stance on protection in all cases.
QUOTE(Apathetic @ Wed 15th July 2009, 4:43pm)
It's pretty simple (and has nothing specifically to do with rootology) - I just think admins (and editors in general) should be accountable to users, including IPs and new users. Semi-protection (and, by extension, full-protection) of an administrators' user talk page without justification and a history of severe abuse (as exists in at least
some of the "dozens of admins" you mention) is thus inappropriate and runs counter to the protection policy.
...and I am still astonished that a sitting arbitrator thinks it's completely fine because it's "
His damn user talk page".
(Which, of course, it isn't. It belongs to the community.)
That pretty well blew me away, too. I think Luke is the only arb you'll see making such comments on- or off- wiki. At least, he's the only one I've seen do so.
And I hate that "your talk page belongs to the community" line. Right, whatever. I get that a lot, too. Let the civility police try to enforce something on my talk page.