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In reply to the discussion: Should DU be an English Only site? [View all]Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)People constantly look to the Admins/Skinner for leadership - most of the time in the manner that my mom used to say, "just wait until your father gets home!"
And that is not the role they play here. They've made that clear through both words and actions. It's been that way for a while.
Rightly or wrongly I think they are 99% hands off now. The community will mold itself. Someone recently asked in ATA about how many timeouts does someone have to get until they finally tombstone them. Skinner said there is no number. It's up to us to keep putting them on timeout.
I think for a while the fear of dad coming home did mold the community to what people thought Skinner wanted. That went out the window a long time ago. I remember countless juries that would reference Skinner and what he would want and the majority would hide. Now if you pull that you might lose your alert privileges for 24 hours.