Janitors don't need nuke power. Frankly, there are only a few cases I can think of in the past year where janitorial reap power would have been helpful. On the other hand, I can't think of any cases where it would have hurt for the power to exist. I think for the most part Janitors have reasonable restraint, particularly when it comes to their philosophy toward reaping nodes. But I'd rather see the scales weigh against reaping in general, and that probably means not giving the power to reap to Janitors, even if it requires three or however many janitorial reap votes.

Speaking with a few in the CB yesterday we discussed a change to number of moderation votes needed to reap a node. I'm in favor of that strategy. If I recall, it was 3 keep or (keep+edit)/2 > 3 to block. And the number of delete votes required would go to 10. We have a lot more "moderators" nowadays than a few years ago. We almost always see considerations reaching at least ten votes one way or another. Reaping is getting accepted or blocked prematurely under the current situation.

Furthermore, there should be a Janitors checkoff required before a node that has met auto-reaping criteria actually gets automatically reaped. We have enough janitors that this shouldn't cause a substantial delay in reaping, and this will prevent mob mentality from getting a node reaped that really shouldn't be. I can think of a number of instances where this would have been a good idea over the past year or so.

So my proposal would be: Increase number of delete votes needed to 10.
Increase number of keeps to block to 3.
Alter Keep/Edit to block to (keep+edit)/2 > 3.
Require a checkoff by any janitor prior to a node actually getting reaped.

...just my .02 ;)


Dave

In reply to Re: editor delete votes by davido
in thread editor delete votes by ysth

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