[WikiEN-l] Rethinking Community

[David Gerard]

On 17/12/2007, Relata Refero <refero.relata at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't asked GlassCobra exactly how scientific his 'study' is, but
> it matches my own intuition. This is precisely why I believe that our
> notions of the 'community' are quite incorrect in orientation, and the
> regular contempt and suspicion showered on IPs apparently getting
> uppity and on new/returning accounts is the worst possible thing for
> the project. I suspect that there are more people actually creating
> the useful content on WP than those with long-term, high-count
> established accounts warring on policy pages and project-space appear
> to imagine there are.


Oh yeah. Biting the n00bs is a REALLY BAD THING. The question is how
to deal with problem cases (up to and including persistent and
dangerous nutters) without getting into a bitey attitude.


- d.