On 6/16/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher(a)student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
From the famous Herostratus RfA: "There's no excuse to not use the
warning templates for users vandalising, especially IP users."
And the perpetrator of this idiotic statement is, according to his
userpage, an RC patroller (although, blessedly, not apparently a member
of CVU).
Once we were worried about the newbie contingent getting so large that
new users were in fact starting to consider themselves old hands and
influencing Wikipedia (see: CVU admins, userbox fiasco). It's gone
beyond that, now: these days, the newbies are offering *advice* to more
clueful users, and expecting it to be taken.
Frankly, I can't believe you are getting so worked up over this. Life would
probably be a lot less stressful for you if you didn't take this personally.
They think they are doing the right thing, after all.
Ryan