[WikiEN-l] ANI curiosity

[Alex Sawczynec]

Probably due in no small part to the fact that AN is the official
"administrator's board," while ANI is the incidents board, the "i'm telling
on you" board where any user can report any perceived threats. Just tends to
lead to more outrageous, drama-inducing posts, I'd wager.

- GlassCobra

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:34 AM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some off-wiki response-seeking...
>
> A couple of comments at the administrator's noticeboard (AN) about the
> quality of ANI discussion have led to a short post on-wiki asking for
> perceptions:
>
> A user's suggested in passing in an AN discussion, that they feel there can
> be issues at ANI:
>
>
>   - *"For whatever reason, discussions at WP:AN seem to be a little more
>      calm and rational than ANI"*
>      - *"ANI is a bit like throwing chum into a pool of sharks. It's just
>      the mentality there"*
>      - *"AN doesn't seem to attract as many drama seekers [as ANI]"*
>
>  Quick feedback: some truth to it? A lot? Not much?
>
>  A simple request for thoughts.
>
> Since ANI and VP tend to be followed by more experienced users and admins,
> I'm posting it on the en mailing list to increase the exposure and odds of
> feedback being given from non-admins.
> Link to on-wiki
> post<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators'_noticeboard#ANI_curiosity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators%27_noticeboard#ANI_curiosity>
> >
>
> FT2
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