106:— but too many users tend to think that adminship seems like a job where you are powerful, the boss, and in control, whilst also you are allowed to act in any way you want, and everybody takes your opinion as right. Because of this, some users only edit Knowledge (XXG) in a nice manner just to become an admin, so they can supposedly gain the power they want, themselves forgetting what the encyclopedia itself is for.
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