[WikiEN-l] Another admin burnout

[Marc Riddell]

> 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.
> 
on 12/20/07 3:30 AM, David Gerard at dgerard at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> That's not an excuse to ignore the ways in which it is in fact the same.

David, but it is not its sameness, but its uniqueness, that presents the
problems that need the focus.
> 
> 
>>> 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.
> 
In a great many ways, it has. And are you saying that its size is the
primary problem now?

Marc