miggles wrote:question to all candidates: what do you plan to do about taking action against admins who have made mistakes or abused power
current forms of punishment are limited to stern talkings to and warnings which are often ignored
It all depends on severity, really. If an admin's behavior can be corrected in a civil manner (simply speaking with them) then we should do just that. Serious or repeat issues after they've already been spoken to should be met with a significantly harsher response (temp/perma deadminning, admin-bans, restricting-permissions). After all, one bad admin makes the rest of us look bad, and violates the trust we should have with the players.
Historically, though, deadminning or even temp-deadminning anyone is guaranteed to cause a massive amount of drama (Terranaut & Elyina are some examples off the top of my head), so I can understand why it's been avoided. It also doesn't help that the last year or so headmins didn't have remote access, limiting their influence to admin-bans.
Really though, I think it's a process that should involve all the headmins, adminbus in general, and possibly even SOS, rather than one angry headmin. Reasonable and thorough discourse should be attempted first and foremost, but in a prompt manner.