I seem to remember a certain admin suggested banning me (not just blocking, you note!) a few months after I got started at WP. This was after I had discussed all my ideas on the appropriate policy discussion groups (which were not that easy for a new user to find, as it happens) for several months, and started carrying out the consensus amongst those who frequented them.
Now who would that have been, I wonder ;-) On 3 Jan 2010, at 15:23, 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 has nothing to do with information and everything to do with the > fact that people editing for the site are giving a gift of their time > and effort. If we treat it as something they should be grateful that > we permit, then the site will preferentially attract the kind of > people who should be grateful that they are allowed to edit (e.g. > spammers). I don't think we want that. > > > [I edited articles for some time (over a year, I believe) without > bothering to make an account and only bothered making one when I > wanted to make some argument about project policy; I wish now that I > never had— the project would likely have gotten a lot more useful work > out of me if I'd continued just anonymously improving articles.] Of course, I agree with the sentiments expressed here - but it is hard for a member of a clique to look outwards or appreciate how someone on the outside experiences WP. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
