[Foundation-l] Analysis of statistics

[Mark Williamson]

Ray, I appreciate your honesty. I'll agree with you that I was not a
very pleasant presence on the ML. Reading archives from, say, 2005
makes me cringe. I'm glad that people were not as heavy-handed as they
could (should?) have been in dealing with me at the time. I learned a
great deal about people from this community although I think the bulk
of the "growing up" I've done (so far!) had to be done In Real Life. I
did definitely learn some lasting lessons though and I'm sure I
wouldn't be who I am today without WM although I'm not so active
anymore.

Mark

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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Ray Saintonge<saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
>> This is precisely one of the problems that is holding us back.
>>
>> Individual prejudices against younger individuals may have scared
>> younger users away from the project.
>>
>> All in all, I feel that we should basically treat all users the same,
>> regardless of age. If a 15 year old makes good contributions to an
>> article on particle physics but they need a little fixing up, it
>> should be treated the same way as if a 30 year old made the same
>> contribution - fix it.
>>
>>
> When I first encountered you you showed a great capacity to be a pain in
> the ass.  You shared that ability with a few others who were already
> well passed their teen years.  Your tenacity through all this has been
> commendable, and your continuing presence has had a mellowing effect on
> you.  At Wikimania-Frankfurt you were one of the two people that I most
> regretted not having the chance to meet.
>
> Ec
>
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