[Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)

[David Gerard]

On 23 February 2011 19:15, Sue Gardner <sgardner at 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.