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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l