User blog comment:Loney 97/What The Young Man Said In The Face Of Progress/@comment-4845243-20150321182732/@comment-4845243-20150321185144

The apparent problem that Loney and others have with the new reforms is that they reduce admins from a role model and "older sibling" type figure to a janitor. I'm saying that we can have both, because all we need for the former is influence, not coercion.

If people having a lot of influence is bad, then people having coercion is much, much worse. Obviously, influence can be used for bad or good purposes, but by itself it isn't bad or good.