[WikiEN-l] Another admin burnout

[David Gerard]

On 20/12/2007, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> on 12/19/07 7:49 PM, Steve Bennett at stevagewp at gmail.com wrote:

> > Other than that, this looks like a fairly normal admin life cycle. He
> > apparently joined the project in late 2004, became an admin some time
> > after that, and leaves 3 years later claiming the project has been
> > overtaken by trolls and has strayed from its original purpose. Is this
> > unusual for anyone's involvement with virtually any internet project?

> If you see Wikipedia as "any internet project" you will be blind to its
> individual needs.


That's not an excuse to ignore the ways in which it is in fact the same.


> > If there's a broader issue we should be discussing here, please tell
> > us what it is.

> Perhaps the reasons really are that it has been "overtaken by trolls and has
> strayed from its original purpose".


I've been here nearly four years and don't think it has. It's MUCH
BIGGER now, but that's a different thing.


- d.