[WikiEN-l] More on WT:AFD

Sat Jan 28 17:47:18 UTC 2006

On 1/28/06, Matt Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
> The alienating newcomers part is what particularly concerns me.  I
> think those on the 'front lines' of fighting vandalism and spam get
> very rapidly jaded and cynical, and start assuming bad faith
> automatically.

No. They stop assuming anything. Assuming bad faith will mean you make
mistakes as will assuming good faith. The the shear number of
descissions the people on the front line have to make means that it is
ilogical to do anything that will increase the number of mistakes you
make.

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geni