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Jack Lynch wrote:
Without those ordinary "idiots" you
wouldn't have an encyclopedia to
play in.
No, it'd just be a lot less idiotic.
Your resort to an ad hominem (and an absurd and
unresearched
one at that, how about you look into me and who I am before making
attacks)
No, that would be making an ad hominem attack; I was addressing your
statment that:
Jack Lynch wrote:
I'd been hoping for a long time that the position
of adminship would
be done away with, in favor of something more wikilike. This entire
thread betrays the basics of why the wikipedia works (anti-elitism,
ability of everyone to edit). These proposals perpetuate the idea that
admins are somehow more competent for having won a popularity contest
at RfA. That simply is not true, and eventually you'll discover the
reason why the wikipedia works, and the nupedia didn't. Creating
hegemony to the benefit of the few is no way to encourage
volunteership. Skilled contributors don't donate their time in order
to be made to feel like 2nd class citizens. Your damn lucky I enjoy
reading the encyclopedia so much, or I wouldn't be wasting time w such
an unrewarding process.
You want adminship done away with. You claim that admins have too much
power and not enough accountability. There is a troll who claimed
exactly the same thing, and conducted a series of "experiments" to try
and prove their point. I was just wondering if you knew each other.
You decided to call me a troll.
I was also addressing your statement that RfA was a popularity contest.
It's more like a sanity check.
clarifies the quality of your argument.
As does your argument.
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