[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 61, Issue 1

[John Olsen]

>

Oh please never use the BAN button under admin.  It's a troublemaker  
that no one fully understands.  I guess it is more friendly in the  
next version of ccHost but I would not use it now.

John


> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:47:08 +0300
> From: Nicu Buculei <nicu_gfx at nicubunu.ro>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 60, Issue 67
> To: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
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> chovynz wrote:
>>
>> Well...I guess. That's kinda what I've been doing already, and  
>> emailing
>> you guys to do the action. If you're all ok with me being a  
>> librarian or
>> admin, I dont mind.
>>
>> But... mostly all I'll be doing is the same. poking my nose in new
>> clipart, seeing if they are ok, writing reviews, uploading as much
>> clipart as I can. The only thing that would change is I'm able to  
>> delete
>> files like "Page" by myself. And then I'd only do it after talking  
>> with
>> you guys for confirmation anyway.
>
> I see this working kink of like Wikipedia, with a large number of
> librarians, we have *a lot* of content and could use *a lot* of eyes
> helping to categorize and clean it.
>
>> Is there a way to undo an admin or librarians changes? (i.e. if I  
>> make a
>> mistake can Jon or John, or one of the other admins "fix" whatever I
>> did?) I really don't want ... more danger. I don't know how to  
>> explain
>> it. The job (making and uploading clipart) is what I'm interested in
>> doing, but I dont want responsibilty or power. I think I AM  
>> responsible,
>> but I dont want responsibilty.
>
> I believe a *deleted* file can't be undeleted. A banned one should be
> possible to unban (we have a bug blocking us from doing so currently,
> but that is just a bug). A wrong tag can be easily changed. So as long
> as you don't delete files without much thinking, it should be safe.
>
> Please just keep in mind some of our core values,like "no censorship".
>