[WikiEN-l] On never visiting a website twice, was Re: The story of an article

[Charles Matthews]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> I do know with absolute certainty that if some admin had blocked me in
> error early in my editing my response would have been to forget about
> the site and not attempt to edit it again for many years, if ever.
>   
This seems to be a big Web issue (no, I don't mean that some fool of an 
admin omitted to block Gregory Maxwell, and now we have to live with the 
consequences). I wondered what Google said on such phrases, i.e. what 
conventional wisdom was on people generally giving websites one chance 
only to impress them. "How to ensure I never visit your site twice" is here

http://virtuelvis.com/archives/2006/11/a-guide-for-losing-visitors

which is a web developer's view. In a sense, by now, Wikipedia should 
have put together a view on this issue. One excuse would be that it is 
only in  the last couple of years that we have had the "steady state" 
position (millions of generic readers, of whom a small proportion are 
potential editors).

Charles