User blog comment:Sprinklemist/Proposition for Protection/@comment-26686429-20100613140649

Opinion: after seeing the vandalism occur, what you need is more local admins, there were users online who could have dealt with the problem, but didn't have the sysop flag. Whilst you should be cautious on who you give the flag to, most members of a community are mature, and probably could do with the tools anyway. Just something for the b'crats to think about.