On 23 February 2011 19:15, Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
It also made me wonder if patrollers find themselves
over time
starting to dehumanize new people, as a kind of coping mechanism, or
just because they feel beleagured. The experience, for me, felt a bit
like a videogame. (And yeah, I am a person who, when playing Pikmin,
felt terrible when I didn't rescue all the little guys before
nightfall, and the predator bug ate them. LOL.)
You now have a visceral understanding of adminitis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adminitis
Perhaps catch admins when they start doing this stuff?
Ban Twinkle? The tool seems to directly encourage problematic behaviour.
- d.