David Gerard wrote:
That's absolutely and incredibly not true. They
write a verifiable
article about something they know, get abusive comments on AFD (for
some reason, civility and assume good faith don't work there ... the
reason AFD is so damn poisonous to the community is that it blatantly
encourages participants to assume *bad* faith) and *leave*.
They're volunteers, not employees. They will write about what they
want to write about, not what someone else wants them to write about.
You can drive them away very easily (does anyone on AFD actually want
to do this? I'd hope not), but I would say this is not a good thing.
That poisonous atmosphere is perhaps the most damaging thing that is
currently happening on Wikipedia. Those who are spreading that poison
appear completely oblivious to the effect that they are having on the
social fabric.
Ec