Talk:System Administrator

Move Sysop to System Administrator
Sysop is synonymous to System Administrator. If there should be any difference, which I doubt, the two terms are so much alike they should be in the same article anyway. --Pereant antiburchius (talk) 23:42, 23 January 2011 (UTC)


 * I've been both a Systems Operator, and a Systems Administrator, and both roles have been very different, despite both having dealt with running a computer based systems. The Systems Operator role was more of a hobby as part of running a old Dial-up Bulletin board system.  The System Administrator position is more of a professional type role.  Even in the professional IT world, an Operator is typically more of a front line or first level support, were an Administrator tends to be more of a second and/or third levels of support; with Engineers typically being the last level of support within the organization.
 * Additionally, the SysOp article points out the best reason of all, that a SysOp typically is used to refer to a forum administrator or moderator, who may or may not be the "administrator" of the computer system it runs on. Spaldam (talk) 19:31, 15 June 2011 (UTC)