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Revision as of 07:58, 24 March 2013
Retired This user is no longer active on Misplaced Pages as of March 2013.In the many years I edited at Misplaced Pages, I tolerated:
- Bullies.
- Cliques.
- Editors with sociopathic personalities.
- Editors who crave power (often with little content-building desire or activity).
- Editors with no desire to learn, let alone respect, policy and guidelines.
- Editors who dominate others via a too-strict adherence to policy and guidelines.
- Misplaced Pages's inability to define, let alone apply "consensus".
- Misplaced Pages's unusual and inconsistent definition of "notable".
- The mysteries of Misplaced Pages's hierarchy (including communications not transparent to the community).
- The admin job-for-life culture.
- Spending most of the first hour of my day fighting vandalism.
- Software development not completely specified by the developers' customers: the editing community.
- Editors who believe that the aesthetic appeal of articles is more important than their content.
- Luddite editors who fight to the death to resist progressing Misplaced Pages from being a nineteenth-century textbook (especially when it comes to referencing).
- The degradation of article content mainly due to the poorly-worded additions of the uninformed.
- Inconsistencies across articles which are largely due to the bizarre "first major contributor wins" philosophy.
- The exodus of good editors.
I woke this morning with the certainty that I no longer want to tolerate these, and I can't envisage a reversal in Misplaced Pages's failure to deal with such issues.
Thank you to the editors whom I respect and with whom I've enjoyed working (you know who you are, so I wont risk omission via enumeration). Best wishes to you all, and I hope that you can continue the good work with strength which I no longer posses. In quiet moments there was joy in building content, however I now realise that it is only a matter of time before one or more of the above points further destroys that joy.
I wonder what's happening outside ...?
:-)
He was despised, you helped me with that, now you join good editors in their exodus, - I don't want to complain but it makes it harder to stay. Best wishes, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:58, 24 March 2013 (UTC)