From: Rebecca misfitgirl@gmail.com
I'm getting really damned sick of all this admin-bashing on wikien-l. We seem to be getting a small clique of very loud users who seem to contribute remarkably little to the project apart from persecuting users who actually *do* (and loudly defending those that don't).
A small clique of very loud users who keep whining that someone else is the clique. Quite often they are failed candidates for various positions additional power on Wikipedia themselves.
Wikipedia is not an experiment in anarchy. If you start punishing good users without a very good reason, they will leave. This is a volunteer project - we rely on the people who are prepared to put in hours and hours of work. The people that are prepared to do this (without causing scores of controversy), become admins. We've seen enough good users leave because of people - and you know who are - who seem to get some bizarre kick out of chasing good users away from the project.
Yep.
Jay.