On 06/06/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia, though, has remained under the effective control of a pretty small part of the community. And the core community has grown more effective as it has learned what it does and doesn't want the encyclopedia to be, which problems need to be dealt with quickly and which can just be ignored. Robots now perform in a matter of hours, feats that would have taken weeks in the past. Problem users who would have made it to arbitration before now end up being blocked indefinitely, because we recognise the behavior patterns and we know that the prognosis for rehabilitation is very low indeed.
Of course, there are some who see exactly the same situation and feel it just indicates we're going downhill faster, more vigorously, and more efficiently!