[Foundation-l] spamming of the english wikipedia users detected

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 22:12:14 UTC 2007


> The low voter turnout could reflect the overbearing nature of some
> admins, or even being completely baffled by the template system.  Most
> people who are affected that way are not likely to stick around to
> argue, and they are even less likely to go to some attack site where
> they can make fools of themselves.  Reasonable and knowledgeable people
> have better things to do with their time; they just quietly disappear.

So are reasons why people would leave Wikipedia, not reasons why
active Wikipedians wouldn't vote. The turnout figures are calculated
based on how many active Wikipedians there are (what definition of
active is used, I have no idea).



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