On 17/12/2007, Relata Refero <refero.relata(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I haven't asked GlassCobra exactly how scientific
his 'study' is, but
it matches my own intuition. This is precisely why I believe that our
notions of the 'community' are quite incorrect in orientation, and the
regular contempt and suspicion showered on IPs apparently getting
uppity and on new/returning accounts is the worst possible thing for
the project. I suspect that there are more people actually creating
the useful content on WP than those with long-term, high-count
established accounts warring on policy pages and project-space appear
to imagine there are.
Oh yeah. Biting the n00bs is a REALLY BAD THING. The question is how
to deal with problem cases (up to and including persistent and
dangerous nutters) without getting into a bitey attitude.
- d.