It gets mostly negative when they try to thing that it all depends on them, and if they dont make this particular deletion )or this particular save), nobody will ever catch it or fix it or restore it, WP will progressively go down hill without them, and the reputation will suffer irrevocably. WP does encourage obsession that way, in admin processes as well as writing. I',m back to my old hobby horse, but i think the first step in getting admins to accept responsibility is for them to all be identifiable human beings. I accept the need for anonymous contributiors; I do not accept the need for anonymous people in authority.
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/03/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
But, hmm. What's a good way to approach an admin biting n00bs at a fantastic rate and edging to burnout?
Burnout is to do with the perceived ratio of effort:reward.
So rewarding them for other work at the same time as casually mentioning that you didn't like how they handled one particular newbie would probably work pretty well.
It's when it's mostly or all negative for them that burnout occurs.
- d.
-- -Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly imperfect world things would be a lot better.
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