Police the behavior of users
Fragment of a discussion from Talk:Question of the week/Archives/2009-12-07
administrators who have a bad behaviour toward a new user should lose his privileges.Nevinho 19:34, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
This presumes that you can determine what is bad behaviour and what isn't. I propose that figuring that out is the entirety of the problem. And why extend that protection only to new users? Why only extend the enforcement to administrators? The special privileges of admins on WMFs wikis are very narrow and have little to do with the treatment of users. No one should receive bad treatment, new or old users, from admins or anyone else.