Iridescent, Who is he Options

[Peter Damian]

How many of you have had PMs or emails from someone claiming to be Iridescent?

[Peter Damian]

Back again - for a bit, anyway.

[mbz1]

Back again - for a bit, anyway.

At last I found myself in a great company..

I'm not back; not only do I not have time, but the more I see of Wikipedia from the vantage point of a semi-detached observer, the more certain I am that the trends I was pointing out a couple of years ago—an obsession with strict compliance over common sense, the increasing domination of policy-wonks, an accelerating decline in the number of editors actually active in content work of any kind, entrenched US west coast and south-east English cultural bias, and simultaneous (and contradictory) unhealthy fixations on the concepts of "anyone can edit" to the point where respected users argue for the unblocking of some of Wikipedia's most disruptive nutjobs because "anyone can edit" and of "disruption warrants blocking" to the point where generally non-problematic users are either blocked from editing or hounded off the site owing to minor breaches of etiquette or personal grudges—have come to dominate the internal workings of Wikipedia to the point where it's becoming impossible to get anything done unless one's a member of one or another privileged clique who'll circle the wagons for you. (Ched, you might want to think long and hard about exactly why you're pushing so hard for the return of Rlevse—who in terms of "time and effort taken to clean up afterwards" is arguably the most disruptive user in Wikipedia's history, and who left such a mess that the cleanup effort is still incomplete 18 months later—but you're not arguing for the return of Ottava, Mattisse, Peter Damian, Kohs, Mbz1 and many more, all of whom were considerably more productive and certainly no more disruptive.)

I like being banned more and more!

This post has been edited by mbz1: Fri 24th February 2012, 6:10pm