On 2/9/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 2/9/07 3:44 PM, geni at geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Šyou end up with resentment against the lucky ones.
After reading all of the posts on the provocatively-named subject "Admin Burnout", I am hard pressed to see anything "lucky" about being "chosen" as one. How on earth would you go about persuading someone to take this on? The whole day's posts have spoken about nothing but the negative side of the job; are there any advantages - or are you simply hoping there are enough masochists out there to fill the positions?
Why is anyone contributing to Wikipedia at all?
Answer: I think we all buy the premise that we're producing something really good here. There are different facets of "producing", from contributing articles, to watching for abuse and vandalism and protecting against it, and figuring out the shape and structure of what we're trying to do.
All are important. All are valued. Some are more thankless than others.