[WikiEN-l] Another notability casualty

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax abd at lomaxdesign.com
Sun Mar 7 05:05:43 UTC 2010


At 07:31 PM 3/6/2010, David Gerard wrote:
>On 7 March 2010 00:00, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <abd at lomaxdesign.com> wrote:
>
> > Onus? No, I'm seeing masses of highly experienced editors leaving the
> > project, with those replacing them being relatively clueless, as to
> > the original vision, which was itself brilliant but incomplete.
>
>
>You aren't allowing for the typical length of intense participation in
>*any* online environment typically being 18-24 months (MMORPGs, etc),
>and that the stated reason may not be the reason.

Indeed. Or it might be the reason, or be related to the reason.

>(Protip: someone who gets blocked as much as you do should consider
>the possibility there are things they fundamentally don't understand
>about the environment.)

Well, certainly that's a possiblity. The reverse is also a 
possibility, and Wikipedia process, basically, can't figure out the 
difference. It's not like I've never seen this before. Time will tell. 




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