Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
Timwi wrote:
And again. Why do newbies keep posting this? How
many people actually
fall for this? How many people actually read this and go "OMG we're
gonna lose a valuable contributor! Must unblock quick!!!"?
Er, because they're *new*? They don't know what's come before.
Yes, but isn't that all the more reason to assume that we won't de-admin
two long-time trusted contributors just to save one contributor whom we
don't even know? I just don't get why so many newbies instantly think
that they're the most valuable Wikipedian ever born and that established
admins must leave to make room for them.
Given that we just topped 250,000 contributors, it is clear that the
proportion of newbies doing this (1 or 2 a month?) is vanishingly small,
its just that you notice them more.
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