MZMcBride desysopped, Next case Options

[Cla68]

Apparently, MZMcBride is being desysopped. I didn't think that he was an abusive admin, but he made some serious mistakes in the way he went about doing admin work.

I guess if we want to try to relate this to the "big picture", it shows that Wikipedia, in my opinion, needs a more formal, structured system to help guide its admins in how they perform project maintenance.

[LaraLove]

Seeing MZMcBride get desysopped while other actual abusive admins are able to retain the bit is just ridiculous. It's also good to see where some of the Arbs stand on the matter, and I'm a bit surprised by a couple. Should be interesting to see how some of these arbs vote in the future on desysopping motions.

[JoseClutch]

Seeing MZMcBride get desysopped while other actual abusive admins are able to retain the bit is just ridiculous. It's also good to see where some of the Arbs stand on the matter, and I'm a bit surprised by a couple. Should be interesting to see how some of these arbs vote in the future on desysopping motions.

There is a random, stochastic element to it, but if you repeatedly get dragged in front of ArbCom for misusing your admin tools, you will get desysopped sooner or later.

Merely being an asshole is not enough, or even necessary, though if you do not blow people off, but actually discuss their concerns and are reasonable, you will never get dragged in front of ArbCom.

Results are a bit surprising. I always thought Flonight hung out on IRC all the time, which would have had me guess she would support MZMBride to the bitter end. Is Carcharoth active on IRC? Wizardman is kind of surprising, too, since he supports everyone and their brother and RFA, and is active on IRC. Otherwise, looks like what you would expect.