[WikiEN-l] Re: Abuse of blocking privileges

Tue May 10 01:43:54 UTC 2005

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Pete/Pcb21 wrote:
> Timwi wrote:
>
>> And again. Why do newbies keep posting this? How many people actually
>> fall for this? How many people actually read this and go "OMG we're
>> gonna lose a valuable contributor! Must unblock quick!!!"?
>
>
> Er, because they're *new*? They don't know what's come before.

Very few people will actually make a significant difference to what
happens here.  We all like to think that things would fall apart on
Wikipedia without us, but it's rarely true.

It kinda pisses me off when people 'threaten' to leave if we don't give
in to their requests.  It comes off as really arrogant and somewhat like
attempted blackmail, IMHO.

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