On 06/06/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)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!
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk