On 07/12/2010, Tony Sidaway <[email protected]> wrote: > What's with the top "award"? "1,000,000 edits and 15 years service." > You'd need a time machine!
<realist hat on> No! The top award in the Wikipedia is to be site banned. ;-) The reason is that (pretty much) any large number of edits will eventually annoy some people. Enough annoyed people will gang up at RFCs and eventually kick off arbcom. These processes *solely* list the 'bad' things that people have done (where 'bad' is something that is somewhat arbitrarily decided by the people involved and is obtained by a fishing trip through edit history, picking out various things) and then they make a decision about how *much* banning the person deserves. The accused are greatly outnumbered and have no defense lawyers, and the process more or less implicitly assumes wrong doing, and is highly selective about pulling out negative edits from what can be an *enormous* pile of positive ones, and no regard is even usually made about how things turned out. For this reason, the more contributions have been made, it's actually a bad thing. The upshot is, most people can get banned eventually. </realist hat off> ;-) -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
