Grants talk:IdeaLab/Create "conduct administrators" with some trivial power to slow down or soft ban mean people.

Not A Good Idea

While it seems like a nice idea on the surface, in reality, the sort of people who volunteer for this sort of thing tend to have controlling personalities. The only effective means of administration is approaching people who are good people and asking them to do it, which is probably not going to fly on Wikipedia. I don't think Wikpedia needs yet another layer of bureaucracy, which is what this would inevitably lead to. If we need more admins, we can get more admins. Titanium Dragon (talk) 08:02, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Agreed. Blocking is one of the two most contentious tools that an admin can use, we need more admins and we need more admins who are willing to deal with trolls and incivility. But the solution is to appoint more admins, and to back those who deal with harassment, not to create a new group of "not quite admins". WereSpielChequers (talk) 11:01, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

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