[WikiEN-l] One alternative

[Daniel R. Tobias]

Guy wrote:
 > Maybe people who incessantly restate their incorrect opinion in the
 > face of repeated rebuttals from people who are plainly much better
 > informed should, well, shut the fuck up.

Wasn't that attitude (though without the obscenity) basically what 
Durova was insisting on in the immediate wake of her bad block... that 
she knew what she was doing, and everybody should just shut up and trust 
her on it?  Look how well *that* worked out...

If you mentally step out of your inner circle for a little bit and see 
how you appear to others, maybe you'll realize just how arrogant it 
comes off as.  You've got a one-note song, with your iPod set on 
permanent auto-repeat: Everything that's ever wrong in Wikipedia is 
always the fault of the evil banned trolls; no criticism ever needs to 
be treated with anything but contempt, because the critics are enabling 
the evil trolls.  It's all "us vs. them", an attitude that has served to 
drive me over the last year from being one of the strongest 
pro-Wikipedia supporters to a pretty intense critic.