[WikiEN-l] Why are veterans so militant of late; The Future. (was Bus Uncle)

[Andrew Gray]

On 06/06/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wikipedia, though, has remained under the effective control of a
> pretty small part of the community.  And the core community has grown
> more effective as it has learned what it does and doesn't want the
> encyclopedia to be, which problems need to be dealt with quickly and
> which can just be ignored.  Robots now perform  in a matter of hours,
> feats that would have taken weeks in the past.  Problem users who
> would have made it to arbitration before now end up being blocked
> indefinitely, because we recognise the behavior patterns and we know
> that the prognosis for rehabilitation is very low indeed.

Of course, there are some who see exactly the same situation and feel
it just indicates we're going downhill faster, more vigorously, and
more efficiently!

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk