Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-74.14.41.165-20150824173506/@comment-74.14.41.165-20150824185523

Tupka217 wrote: 74.14.41.165 wrote: Maurice.136 wrote: User:TheDisneyWarren blocked me from The Disney Warren wiki for being Canadian. This is a perfect example of a biased admin and why the creation of such a regulating body is justified. Banning someone due to their nationality? Is this the kind of user you want with limitless power.

It's not a perfect example of why this proposal has merit. It is one story - one side of one story, even - of an incident on an admin-named wiki (not a franchise wiki), rather than any evidence of a consistent problem that warrants the creation of a tribunal to judge all admins everywhere along the same standards. A tribunal that, as Underscorre pointed out, has very little knowledge of the wiki, or the context of the block.

The power of an admin is not limitless: it can be curtailed by the community. A community that can vote with their feet if they have to. Does this mean there are bad admins? Yes. Does that mean there has to be a Grand High Council for admins? Nope. Even if it were created, it will be flooded by disgruntled users who got their arse blocked and don't like it, drowning out that one occasional genuine case. Just let other people vote, see if they think its needed. As for Maurice, if I just give it to them on my own, they wont accept it. If I have a ton of people backing me up, the board stands a fair chance.