On 5/30/06, Redvers @ the Wikipedia wikiredvers@yahoo.ie wrote:
From: Molu loom91@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia
If you are unpopular, then you are doing something wrong.
People who whine on about admins and admin abuse broadly seem to fall into two categories. Either they're people with an agenda (or a model for the 'pedia that the majority don't support) to push or they're admin-wannabies who see the post as some sort of reward and want it for themselves and are frustrated they don't think they'll get it.
Interestingly, people who criticise Jimbo fall into similar categories - either they have an agenda to push or they think they can do a better job of being figurehead and are frustrated they won't get it.
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The company you keep often tells more about you than you do yourself, I find.
-> REDVERS
But y'know, one or the other is probably right. It is *very* unlikely that the current situations are completely optimal (if you think they are, the onus is on you to demonstrate that- see [[Status quo bias]]).
The question is, overall, and in specific instances, which side is more correct than the other or the status quo? Simply writing such people off as irrational is itself irrational. Minds must be kept open.
~maru consistency is the hobgoblin....