Jimbo causes Blofeld to quit Options

[thekohser]

I don't know why so many "long-time editors" seem very surprised and indignant to discover that Jimmy Wales is a horrible manager of communities, and that he's basking in success and fame on the thankless labor served up by grunts who don't realize that Jimmy Wales keeps the architecture deliberately labor-intensive, because it's so addictive.

Good luck on the "outside", Blofeld!

[Ottava]

Jimbo never accused me of being a sexist or a troll. Maybe a troll behind my back. I feel left out.

[Milton Roe]

Jimbo never accused me of being a sexist or a troll. Maybe a troll behind my back. I feel left out.

So? Did you ever go to his TALK page and write: "Maybe if you actually offered decent incentives to editors to get much needed work done for you you'd attract better contributors and more female editors instead of expecting everybody to pussy foot around you while you reap all the rewards."

I think if you had, it probably would not have stayed long.

[Ottava]

Jimbo never accused me of being a sexist or a troll. Maybe a troll behind my back. I feel left out.

So? Did you ever go to his TALK page and write: "Maybe if you actually offered decent incentives to editors to get much needed work done for you you'd attract better contributors and more female editors instead of expecting everybody to pussy foot around you while you reap all the rewards."

I think if you had, it probably would not have stayed long.

I keep trying to but for some reason the system wont let me.

But yes, anyone else think it is odd how Blofield thinks his "contributions" are anything more than what a bot could do?

[Eva Destruction]

But yes, anyone else think it is odd how Blofield thinks his "contributions" are anything more than what a bot could do?

Much as it pains me to do so, I'm going to defend Blofeld on that score. Don't let the flood of bot-generated substubs he created hide the fact that he did a lot of substantive work on important-but-unfashionable topics which went generally unnoticed, as they're neither in English-speaking countries nor ever mentioned in The Simpsons—Deforestation in Brazil, Sharabha or Maiden Tower (Baku) for instance. If Wikipedia is ever going to become a credible reference work, those are just the kind of significant-but-not-covered-by-Britannica topics which it ought to have.

This post has been edited by Eva Destruction: Thu 3rd February 2011, 1:03am

[Ottava]

But yes, anyone else think it is odd how Blofield thinks his "contributions" are anything more than what a bot could do?

Much as it pains me to do so, I'm going to defend Blofeld on that score. Don't let the flood of bot-generated substubs he created hide the fact that he did a lot of substantive work on important-but-unfashionable topics which went generally unnoticed, as they're neither in English-speaking countries nor ever mentioned in The Simpsons—Deforestation in Brazil, Sharabha or Maiden Tower (Baku) for instance. If Wikipedia is ever going to become a credible reference work, those are just the kind of significant-but-not-covered-by-Britannica topics which it ought to have.

Okay, okay, I'll grant you that, but still - those super stubs are still mind boggling.


(As a note, not Blofield but Blofield did do a lot of work on the article).

[Malleus]

Okay, okay, I'll grant you that, but still - those super stubs are still mind boggling.

They are indeed. Dr. Blofeld and I recently had a little spat after I called him the king of the micro-stubs, but to be fair he's done a lot more than that, and a lot more than many others, including Jimmy Wales.