On 3/11/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 3/11/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
And honestly, you should know me well enough by now. No amount of political, financial, or legal leverage in the entire universe would persuade me to do the wrong thing by our mission. We have, as a community, principles and integrity. This is what we are all about.
You've changed a lot from the early days. What started out as a laissez faire "let the community decide for itself" attitude has grown more and more despotic over time.
In what way? I think that's a pretty silly claim.
Well, looking back, it actually isn't quite as severe as I thought. Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=&user=Jim... there does seem to be a jump in relatively recent admin actions. And there's the whole arbcom election fiasco and the previous appointment of Kelly Martin. There's the "experiment" taking away the ability for users that aren't logged in from creating pages. There's the banning of anonymous proxies. And of course now there's the whole office action situation.
But looking back you seem to have been at least somewhat held back in dealing with the situations, moreso than my apparently faulty memory led me to believe.
Anthony