QUOTE(everyking @ Sun 7th March 2010, 5:45am)
QUOTE(powercorrupts @ Sun 7th March 2010, 3:48am)
For me at the moment it is TenofallTrades - a truly miserable all-round git, and FencesandWindows - just a typical helpyourbuddy/maimtheeditor/refusetoaknowledgehim git - but a particularly obnoxious example.
Stifle always seems to pop up being unimpressive.
Admin are so bad at the moment this thread could really inflate. Some may have good points - but who cares? I honestly don't think the system will last the year. Something's got to give.
Compared to four or five years ago, the system works beautifully and admins are acting like veritable saints. There is a sense of rules, fairness, and responsibility that simply did not exist several years ago, around the time this forum was set up. Abusive admins actually feel community pressure now, and the ArbCom will actually take action now. Yeah, TenOfAllTrades is obnoxious--but is he
abusive?
But why compare to 5 years ago? I had my nose turned up then, like half the intelligent word still does (a lot less intelligence) now. I'm only concerned with what with what Wikipedia
is.
It's the 'spirit of Wikipedia' that gets abused. We cannot do anything about editors ignoring it, but the idea is that admin aren't supposed to. Showing bad faith in the editor you've never met before, putting your "POV" (from emotionalism to subject bias) before the central policies. Failing to be friendly before threatening. Ignoring clear consensus when you are supposed to remind people of it. Not even believing that it's your job to be a 'Wikipedian' before anything else. Simply not behaving like an admin.
Most abuses will be over POV protection, and either won't be seen, or cannot be proved. The only way to get around that is to try and make admin who believe in Wikipedia and we can trust. But admin promote admin that kiss arse.
There is no way for anyone to (esp without prejudice) call an admin up on the 'little things', or even the medium and large things. Editors are not allowed to 'warn' admin (for TenofAllTrades, to warn and not 'move' on it is a strike against your name, that makes you disruptive if you dare to do it to others too). Only the seriously high profile crimes eventually get punished on Wikipedia. To chase an admin up over anything less is to endanger your account. If you piss off too many admin, and you are anything less than a model editor, you have seriously compromised your account. That naturally leads to account changing, but do enough admin really care? It's a corrupt system. It's so obvious I don't even know why I'm writing all this right now. We need fixed terms at very least.