[WikiEN-l] Admin-driven death of Wikipedia: a diatribe

[maru dubshinki]

On 5/30/06, Redvers @ the Wikipedia <wikiredvers at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> From: Molu <loom91 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven
> death of Wikipedia
>
> > If you are unpopular, then you are doing something
> > wrong.
>
> People who whine on about admins and admin abuse
> broadly seem to fall into two categories. Either
> they're people with an agenda (or a model for the
> 'pedia that the majority don't support) to push or
> they're admin-wannabies who see the post as some sort
> of reward and want it for themselves and are
> frustrated they don't think they'll get it.
>
> Interestingly, people who criticise Jimbo fall into
> similar categories - either they have an agenda to
> push or they think they can do a better job of being
> figurehead and are frustrated they won't get it.
.....
> The company you keep often tells more about you than
> you do yourself, I find.
>
> -> REDVERS

But y'know, one or the other is probably right. It is *very* unlikely
that the current situations are completely optimal (if you think they
are, the onus is on you to demonstrate that- see [[Status quo bias]]).

The question is, overall, and in specific instances, which side is
more correct than the other or the status quo? Simply writing such
people off as irrational is itself irrational. Minds must be kept
open.

~maru
consistency is the hobgoblin....