QUOTE(Peter Damian @ Sun 7th March 2010, 12:35pm)
Does anyone know why it is that the really bad types all get a 'Awesome Wikipedian' present from Rlevse? E.g. TenofAllTrades a few days ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=347109850I've often pondered on the logic of why people get these (Haiduc got one, e.g.). What are they for?
It's co-op gaming. What else? The first time I saw the Day bollocks (a few years ago now I think) I was genuinely taken in - ie I thought the admin must be a seriously good one.
I've actually questioned Rleves about giving these, but too indirectly, and he studiously missed the irony. When I saw the one awarded to Tenofall while he was being such a relentless cock at CDA, I was tempted just to take the whole 'Your own Awesome Wikipedian Day' award to RfC as a "a bad, gameable and generally anti-Wikiepdian idea". It's not really the climate though, esp if you have just been accused of complaining too much for having the gall to take on more than one admin at once.
I've always distrusted barnstars, beyond the 'original' one given for a decent reason I suppose. I saw two obvious socks award them to each other once. An admin was given one once for unblocking me from his own block - an award for rectifying a untenably bad knee-jerk decision, that he proudly displays in an Award List that shows no indication of why it was given it at all. He unblocked with a real power trippy caveat too. I think there will be a 'tipping point' in Wikipedia's evolution, where enough editors have been round long enough to just be simply too tired of the way things stand.