[WikiEN-l] Admins shouldn't shoot back

[Gracenotes]

On 6/19/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/19/07, Gracenotes <wikigracenotes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/19/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Slim Virgin wrote:
> > > >> Yet we persist in doing it here
> > > >> -- and worse, because we have no idea who our "menial employees"
> are,
> > > >> or whether we have one person filling several jobs -- using the
> excuse
> > > >> that adminship is "no big deal."
> > Only if we want to create a culture that glorifies article creators and
> > despises maintenance workers ...
>
> Gracenotes, you need to read what you're responding to. Someone else
> made the analogy of admins and editors to "menial employees." It was
> just an analogy; it said nothing about article creators v. maintenance
> workers. The hyperbole has to stop, because it's just an attempt to
> stoke things up.

I am aware that my paragraph is somewhat out of context, and is
more meant as a general response to the so-called "culture" for which
you've recently been advocating. But it's a piece of satire (so, like A
Modest Proposal, it naturally employs hyperbole), and I hope to heaven
that you realize that. Or else I shall get a wall to bang my head against.
(Figuratively.) It's meant to intellectually stoke things up, to get people
to *think* about things; I have talked to some editors who have indicated
that they sense the atmosphere in some parts of Wikipedia discourages
original thinking about extra-content situations. Now, if you can identify
why I think this culture is a bad idea, congratulations, you're off to a
super start! (Or you can claim to be confused.)

Cheers,
Gracenotes