Oldak Quill wrote:
I see the equality between the old boys and the newbies as one of Wikipedia's greatest assets for the reasons I state above. It prevents anyone from becoming over-mighty and abusing their power and damaging Wikipedia. Leaders shouldn't come to the job because of the perks and benefits - they should fight for it because they truly want it and believe in the project.
That's a nice fantasy, but nobody works for no reward at all. For instance, we reward random editors by letting their contributions appear on a top-20 website; editors who continually have all their edits reverted eventually get the hint and go away. If every policy I propose gets shot down or subverted, how long do you think I'm going to keep doing it?
Stan