"James Hare" wrote
If it's strongly deprecated to the point where
people are banned because
they do it, that to me sounds like it's prohibited.
It's strongly deprecated for good reasons. What is a paid editor going to do in an
edit war? You see, it's all fine editing WP, until someone disagrees with you. Smart
people on the wiki then act _very carefully_, knowing that one's reputation is on the
line.
Relatively smart paid editors will take everything they can get as their due, and make
great difficulties about any concessions. They are being hired-gun POV pushers, in that.
Non-smart paid editors will just bluster and bludgeon their way, until they are clearly in
breach of policy. At best therefore we get a partisan editor of an unpopular type; at
worst a typical 'ideologue'.
The chances of getting a really good wiki-literate paid editor seem very low, in fact.
There are plenty of people, apparently, who think that reading a few policy pages and
being able to wikilawyer about them gives one the basics of the WP culture. They are so
wrong about that.
Charles
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