On 15 October 2010 20:17, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:

> The bottom line is that you're not going to have a happy volunteer
> community unless you consistently pay attention when it complains.  I
> think the response to the thread I started about this a while ago was
> a pretty clear-cut example of complaints that a huge proportion
> (~100%) of volunteers agreed with and many prominent volunteers felt
> were important, but which were simply brushed off by staff as
> unreasonable.  When you do that, you will very predictably find that
> volunteers' attitude toward staff will sour.
> But instead of seeing volunteers' frustration as something that needs
> to be addressed by staff if you expect to keep a healthy community
> going, you see it as a problem in its own right which is the fault of
> the volunteers.  This perspective has, unfortunately, been typical of
> Wikimedia staff for some time now.


+1


- d.

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