On 5/30/06, Redvers @ the Wikipedia <wikiredvers(a)yahoo.ie> wrote:
From: Molu <loom91(a)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.
.....
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....