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Samson · 01-08-2009, 02:35 PM

You'll excuse me while I proceed to laugh my ass off. [steps away]

OK, done. Thanks for brightening up my day with that bit of silliness.

Other admins being able to see it means nothing to the rest of us. It's the same as if I and the other admins on MudBytes depublished several high profile posts and then went around making claims about how they weren't appropriate to the forum because of the replies they got. People would rightly claim there's no proof of any of it unless the audit trail is visible to all.

You've done the same. Delisted an article. It's sitting in an admins-only bin somewhere. You guys can point to it and claim X is a sockputted of Y's meatpuppet for Z all day long and cite bogus edits as your reasoning but nobody can back that up now because of it all being swept under the rug and hidden from view.

I think it's even further ridiculous that when caught exercising improper action, the fallback is now WP:IAR ( Ignore all rules ) which seems like an awfully convenient get out of jail free card for the elitests in charge.

01-08-2009, 02:35 PM	#129
Samson Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: United Socialist States of America Home MUD: SmaugMuds.org Home MUD: Arthmoor MUD Hosting Posts: 249	Re: In defense of all MUDs. Our genre's noteworthiness is being questioned. You'll excuse me while I proceed to laugh my ass off. [steps away] OK, done. Thanks for brightening up my day with that bit of silliness. Other admins being able to see it means nothing to the rest of us. It's the same as if I and the other admins on MudBytes depublished several high profile posts and then went around making claims about how they weren't appropriate to the forum because of the replies they got. People would rightly claim there's no proof of any of it unless the audit trail is visible to all. You've done the same. Delisted an article. It's sitting in an admins-only bin somewhere. You guys can point to it and claim X is a sockputted of Y's meatpuppet for Z all day long and cite bogus edits as your reasoning but nobody can back that up now because of it all being swept under the rug and hidden from view. I think it's even further ridiculous that when caught exercising improper action, the fallback is now WP:IAR ( Ignore all rules ) which seems like an awfully convenient get out of jail free card for the elitests in charge.