LOL, I'm obviously not talking about "the" admins. I'm talking about cliques: People who '''do''' show a vested interest in some particular, and coordinate edits accordingly. There are also cliques which are primarilly focused on chatting w one another, leaving small jokes and images on one anothers pages. The latter are usually a good thing, encouraging community and making people happier about editing. They can become a problem however when 1 member has a conflict, and rallies the others into prejudiced partisan support.
Please be mindful, were talking about middle school style '''cliques''', not some outdated usenet concept or crazed conspiracy theories w Jimbo playing puppeteer from the shadows.
Jack (Sam Spade)
On 9/22/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/22/05, Jack Lynch jack.i.lynch@gmail.com wrote:
This distinction between Clique and Cabal is an important one. While I suppose one could imagine a "developers clique", or a "old hands clique" which might be synonymous w some peoples conception of a cabal, I really don't see those as being a problem on the wiki. Rather the problem I see are users and admins which act as one, creating partisan voting blocks on areas of mutual interest, and coordinating efforts to shout down criticism and attempts to NPOV their POV.
Jack (Sam Spade)
You might have a case if anyone had ever managed to get the admins to agree on anything. -- geni
But Jimbo is playing puppeteer with me! Why else is he standing over me and what are these strings doing on me?
On 9/22/05, Jack Lynch jack.i.lynch@gmail.com wrote:
LOL, I'm obviously not talking about "the" admins. I'm talking about cliques: People who '''do''' show a vested interest in some particular, and coordinate edits accordingly. There are also cliques which are primarilly focused on chatting w one another, leaving small jokes and images on one anothers pages. The latter are usually a good thing, encouraging community and making people happier about editing. They can become a problem however when 1 member has a conflict, and rallies the others into prejudiced partisan support.
Please be mindful, were talking about middle school style '''cliques''', not some outdated usenet concept or crazed conspiracy theories w Jimbo playing puppeteer from the shadows.
Jack (Sam Spade)
On 9/22/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/22/05, Jack Lynch jack.i.lynch@gmail.com wrote:
This distinction between Clique and Cabal is an important one. While I suppose one could imagine a "developers clique", or a "old hands clique" which might be synonymous w some peoples conception of a cabal, I really don't see those as being a problem on the wiki. Rather the problem I see are users and admins which act as one, creating partisan voting blocks on areas of mutual interest, and coordinating efforts to shout down criticism and attempts to NPOV their POV.
Jack (Sam Spade)
You might have a case if anyone had ever managed to get the admins to agree on anything. -- geni
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