And now for some vaguely on-topic off-topicality: OOo 3.2

[Amedee Van Gasse (u2s)]

On Wed, February 17, 2010 15:42, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (u2s)
> <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
>> On Tue, February 16, 2010 12:55, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>>> Q.v.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_User_Access
>>> (although, IIRC, I think I wrote that, originally.)
>>
>> You even contributed to the discussion page.
>
> I used to actively contribute to Wikipedia; I wrote numerous articles
> & edited widely.
>
> Then some arrogant mindless little scrote - I think it was User:Yamla
> but I could be wrong - accused me of "vandalism" for a very careful &
> meticulous page-edit, reverted my changes and left an highly offensive
> note on my personal user discussion page threatening to block me. I
> think they had been on WP for about 1/8th as long as I had.
>
> Soon after, an entire, some-years-old article, linked to from a number
> of others and widely edited, was deleted for being "insufficiently
> encyclopaedic".
>
> Since then, WP can, by and large, go screw itself, basically. I
> correct the odd typo but I have not written another word for the site
> and do not intend ever to do so.
>
> There are thousands of arrogant admins and editors now whose chief
> contribution is deleting stuff, reverting changes, throwing away tons
> of others' hard work & pissing others off. They seem to see themselves
> as the guardians of wisdom and there is a whole incestuous little
> community of them, with dozens of tribes, awarding each other
> "barnstars" and whatnot.
>
> Fsck the lot of 'em.  I dislike cliques and little groups that don't
> welcome outsiders, and when someone accuses a hard-working volunteer
> of being a vandal, well, this particular hard-working volunteer quits
> on the spot.

Sounds like a typical Ubuntu mailing list :-)