Finally, it has been asked whether we're actually making Wikipedia
better;
I'd like to ask the contrapositive: Is alienating a dedicated corps of recent changes patrollers what you were looking for? Were you trying to
make
us feel unappreciated? Will Wikipedia be a better place if we decide to
stop
doing RC patrol?
Quite possibly.
I'd love to know what you mean by this. Are you implying that the CVU's RC patrollers are somehow inferior to other ones? Is there something inherently wrong that corrupts every CVU member that makes them unfit for any job relating to vandals or administrative duties?
This statement may be completely false, but I kind of feel like some of the people bitching and moaning about the CVU haven't done a bit of vandalfighting in months, and somehow feel that because we're doing a job that they aren't, that we're a threat to their supremacy at... whatever. I'm not sure where I'm going with that, I just feel like the CVU is getting blasted not by other RC patrollers, or by users who've been slighted by them (of which I know none of), but by people who have nothing to do with the area of Wikipedia that the CVU deals with.
-- Jay Converse I'm not stupid, just selectively ignorant.