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| == "Resignation" from Misplaced Pages == | |||
| When Misplaced Pages first started, it was a very nice project. You could contribute to existing articles or start new ones, and it was fun to watch other users improve on what you had written -- expanding it, making it clearer, adding more information, etc. It really worked well for a number of years. | |||
| But those days are over. I've found lately that if you try to contribute anything at all, somebody immediately deletes your contribution, citing some obscure violation of the minutiae of thousands of Misplaced Pages rules and policies. I've sometimes spent hours and hours arguing with someone over making even the tiniest change to an article; then after having soundly won the argument, had my contribution deleted anyway. Start a new article on some topic, and it gets almost immediately deleted. Try correcting or adding to an existing article, and your edits are immediately reverted. Try to look up an article you wrote a few years ago, and it's gone. There's just no point in spending time on the Misplaced Pages project anymore, when anything you do is immediately deleted. After many years of contributing to Misplaced Pages, I've finally had enough of fighting with these self-appointed deletionist Misplaced Pages topic police. I won't be contributing to it anymore, and will be joining the increasing number of people who are abandoning the Misplaced Pages project. ] (]) 02:53, 17 November 2011 (UTC) | |||
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Name: David Simpson
Location: Maryland, United States
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"Resignation" from Misplaced Pages
When Misplaced Pages first started, it was a very nice project. You could contribute to existing articles or start new ones, and it was fun to watch other users improve on what you had written -- expanding it, making it clearer, adding more information, etc. It really worked well for a number of years.
But those days are over. I've found lately that if you try to contribute anything at all, somebody immediately deletes your contribution, citing some obscure violation of the minutiae of thousands of Misplaced Pages rules and policies. I've sometimes spent hours and hours arguing with someone over making even the tiniest change to an article; then after having soundly won the argument, had my contribution deleted anyway. Start a new article on some topic, and it gets almost immediately deleted. Try correcting or adding to an existing article, and your edits are immediately reverted. Try to look up an article you wrote a few years ago, and it's gone. There's just no point in spending time on the Misplaced Pages project anymore, when anything you do is immediately deleted. After many years of contributing to Misplaced Pages, I've finally had enough of fighting with these self-appointed deletionist Misplaced Pages topic police. I won't be contributing to it anymore, and will be joining the increasing number of people who are abandoning the Misplaced Pages project. SimpsonDG (talk) 02:53, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
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