[WikiEN-l] The userbox fad

Thu Jan 5 22:23:23 UTC 2006

> From: wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org 
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces at Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of 
> slimvirgin at gmail.com
> Sent: Friday, 6 January 2006 03:39
> To: English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] The userbox fad
> 
> On 1/5/06, Peter Mackay <peter.mackay at bigpond.com> wrote:
> > > If they only made those 20 edits, then I'd agree, but many are 
> > > making 10x that many edits complaining about their toys 
> being taken 
> > > away.
> >
> > Again, why not encourage them to be more productive instead of 
> > lambasting them?
> 
> With so many of them, the last thing you'd want is for them 
> to become more productive, because they're terrible editors. 

Newcomers in any field are rarely excellent. You might as well close down
the education system because the kindergarten children aren't as good as
those who have been around for twelve years.

Peter (Skyring)