On 12 October 2011 18:42, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.comwrote:
Reminds me - we should at some stage do something about "noticeboards". Not that they all need stamping out, but as unchartered processes, the more useful ones should graduate to having some sort of charter.
Yes, and starting with WP:ANI; the Wikipedia is a Stanford Prison Experiment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
First you divide the users into two groups, we'll call them guards (admins) and inmates (editors) and then ensure that the admins are in the minority so that they HAVE to gang up on the editors. Then we give them unlimited power over editors and make sure that there's virtually no policies or guidelines that relate to severity of punishment.
What could *possibly* go wrong???
Charles