On 2/3/06, Jay Converse <supermo0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Wow, never realized I could imply so much with so few words.
You're rather touchy.
I'm not making any particular statements about the activities or
actions of the members of the paramilitary-named Counter Vandalism
Unit.
Okay, I'll make one now: invite-only IRC chats don't seem like the
right way to take actions with sufficient transparency and goodwill.