[WikiEN-l] declining numbers of EN wiki admins - The theory that making it easier to get rid of admins is a solution to the decline in their active numbers

[Abd ul-Rahman Lomax]

At 11:17 AM 6/1/2010, Carcharoth wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Risker <risker.wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Procedural note to moderators:  Perhaps it is time to consider a length
> > limit on posting?
>
>I'm not a moderator, but I've just been skipping those long posts.
>They are annoying, but I may one day read those posts if I have
>nothing better to do, and sometimes there is something interesting in
>there.

That's what I do with long posts that don't grab me. Some people like 
long posts, some don't. Some of those who don't want to prevent those 
who like them from receiving them. It is a very old story.

I skip *lots* of posts. But I have no opinion that there is 
necessarily something wrong with them. Obviously. If the writer 
wanted to reach me, then the effort failed. But the post wasn't sent 
personally to me, if it were, I'd be much more inclined to read it.

Now, what I do which could be a problem is to respond to an 
individual, thus luring the individual into reading it, but I'm 
actually exploring a much larger topic. Perhaps if I'm going to write 
something that might be taken as an attack, I should make it brief 
and separate it from the larger commentary -- or not send it at all.