[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[Fayssal F.]

The same community that is getting more and more uncivil is the same
community that banned WP:ESP in an uncivil manner!

Fayssal F.


Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:36:57 +0100
> From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Civility poll results
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> 2009/8/12 George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> 2009/8/11 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:
> >>> Thank you, Thomas, you just made my point. This is exactly the type of
> focus
> >>> and denial I was speaking of.
> >>
> >> I'm not denying we have a problem with civility. I got desysopped for
> >> a civility block the community and ArbCom objected to. What I'm
> >> denying is that this problem is going to lead it disaster. There is
> >> absolutely no evidence of that.
> >
> >
> > I think there is a significant structural risk in the community
> > steadily getting less welcome to new blood.
>
> I agree, but is there evidence that we are losing a significant number
> of new users due to incivility? Numbers of new editors have dropped
> recently, but that is to be expected as we pick more and more of the
> low hanging fruit. I don't see how a poll can determine whether our
> civility problems are having a large impact, only a survey of people
> that leave after a short time can do that.
>
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