On 12.12.2014, at 06:07, James Salsman <jsalsman@gmail.commailto:jsalsman@gmail.com> wrote:
Where is the evidence that a greater proportion of reverts is associated with increased hostility instead of higher article quality standards?
good point, one could also blame it on the postulated "no easy contributions anymore" - effect which is very similar, as a single contribution that fits with the quality of the rest of the content is just harder to make as a newbie. Therefore we should probably be careful to use the term "hostility" in the sense of "purposefully antagonistic behavior against a certain sample of the editor population", when actually that "hostility" against newcomers is just a side effect of newcomers being the ones that can't keep up with the quality standards (or rule complexity) like James says.
Cheers, Fabian
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