On 02/12/2007, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
Ever since Usenet was started in the late 70s, old timers lamented that newbies didn't [[RTFM]], didn't read FAQs, and made the same old mistakes over and over again and that experienced users were answering the same questions over and over again. Oh how nice it would be if newbies would step back and learn how things worked before diving in. (or as we like to call it "being bold")
So when did this trend of suspecting editors who don't have a history of "newbie mistakes" of being potential troublemakers start? I can think of several good faith explanations for this...
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My second or third edit - certainly the same evening I started! - was to AFD an article (or VFD, as it was then). It wasn't any of those reasons - just a realisation that this ought to be deleted, and a willingness to spend half an hour reading up on how to do it.
Don't rule out competence!