[WikiEN-l] Re: RickK leaving: adminship has become much more than"no big dea

Tue Jun 21 18:51:22 UTC 2005

>From: Rebecca <misfitgirl at gmail.com>
>
>I'm getting really damned sick of all this admin-bashing on wikien-l.
>We seem to be getting a small clique of very loud users who seem to
>contribute remarkably little to the project apart from persecuting
>users who actually *do* (and loudly defending those that don't).

A small clique of very loud users who keep whining that someone else is the 
clique.  Quite often they are failed candidates for various positions 
additional power on Wikipedia themselves.

>Wikipedia is not an experiment in anarchy. If you start punishing good
>users without a very good reason, they will leave. This is a volunteer
>project - we rely on the people who are prepared to put in hours and
>hours of work. The people that are prepared to do this (without
>causing scores of controversy), become admins. We've seen enough good
>users leave because of people - and you know who are - who seem to get
>some bizarre kick out of chasing good users away from the project.

Yep.

Jay.