Adminship has become a big deal and everyone knows it even if they offer aphorisms to the contrary.—SMcCandlish
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For all practical purposes, desysopping acts as a permanent bar to an editor ever becoming an admin again. – Iridescent[1]
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"What a very sorry state of affairs, when children and rather odd adults elected to the Arbcom can willingly and knowingly drive off productive and long standing editors. One despairs, one really does!"Giano[2]
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I put this next quote by Tryptofish here because in view of the RexxS Arbcom case, it's practically verbatim what I would have said myself:
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I'm retired-and-yet-not-retired, whatever that is. I'm just flat-out disgusted with what the culture here has degraded into, and I'm only dropping in from time to time to, I guess, be a single-purpose account whose purpose is to try and do something about it. If things improve, maybe I'll eventually resume content editing, but if not, not... – Tryptofish[3]
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The problem is that ArbCom is a failed process. I could go on for a while here about that if you would like. The very quick summary; I spent years digging into this and what I found was absolutely appalling. The gross incompetence and, at times, outright malfeasance is absolutely shocking. ArbCom is wildly out of control, routinely ignores policies the community has established including WP:ARBPOL, dramatically tilts cases against named parties, and ignores evidence in favor of private deliberations. – Hammersoft[4]
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"You can't have grudges against people who criticize you in good-faith." – Juliancolton
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The moral turpitude of those regulars who populate the behaviour boards beggars belief – (I'll spare the identity of the pronouncer of this gem)
