Submitted by Bezotcovschina in meta (edited )
/u/Marco the admin registered 4 years ago, first post today. Who are they? Person of mystery.
Is it appropiative to want to know more information about administrators? By "more information", of course, I mean anything not reviling. Like, how long they are admin? Who made them admin?
Is it healthy curiosity?
Forget I ever asked, my bad.
Tequilx_Wolf wrote (edited )
A failed attempt at security culture that remained as a likely useless stopgap measure while admins try to find better ways to navigate security concerns.
I think it does raise interesting questions about the safety of admins if you need to build a personality/trust profile to become an admin.
It means that being admin does come with real risks that are heightened in specific circumstances that admins might find themselves in. Seems largely unavoidable.
All these things being said, I think it's probably important that we keep on top of basic security culture concerns. If the basic premise of security culture is that everything should be on a need to know basis, where does the balance get struck between security and trust in this context, where in in my case and others our profile is already compromised - ie. there is a significant amount of information that can be attained or deduced about us just by looking at what is available.
Definitely it seems to me that the first action should never to be making a public post full of questions towards transparency, which alerts everyone to something that clearly was not public, on a website built for anonymity. Given that this is not the first time that this has happened it does say something about the culture of the space. (and also said admin's naivete)