That thing Mr. Mark wrote sounds like something from Animal Farm, doesn't it? He might as well have said, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
I agree that we would never want someone like Mr. Mark as an administrator here, but I think the set-up we currently have pretty much guarantees that we won't have someone like Mr. Mark as an administrator here for very long. Even if he managed to fool us briefly into electing him, we could recall him if he got out of hand. Our two webmonkeys, Dunc and Odeon are the exact opposite of Mr. Mark. I'm nothing like him either, but if I ever turn into someone like him, which I am pretty sure I never would, we would have a vote to recall me. It would be the same situation if we had another semi-permanent administrator who acted like that. We would vote them out.
On WP, someone has to hoodwink just one person who is fairly susceptible to flattery. We would see right through an act like that here, IMO.
