2009/9/29 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
(I think established users forget how annoying becoming autoconfirmed is— you have to wake a week and make a bunch of edits to non-semied pages. This is pretty obnoxious when you just want to correct a simple error on a single article)
^^^ This.
Again, I reiterate that all experienced editors should try editing as an IP for a while. See how well our propaganda matches the way we actually treat apparent n00bs. (This is a standing recommendation on the functionaries list, by the way, so the most privileged en:wp users do try to keep themselves aware of this.)
- d.